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Bethe region (A Z 7). This interesting feature persists for a non-quasiclassical Morse well (see Section 4) and can be also seen in the results of accurate numerical calculations for a system with a reahstic potential (see Section 6). Of course, the prerequisite of these effects is an existence of a weakly bound state. 

Compared with the Morse potential, Hooke s law performs reasonably well in the equilibrium area near If, where the shape of the Morse function is more or less quadratic (see Figure 7-9 in the minimum-energy region). To improve the performance of the harmonic potential for non-equilibrium bond lengths also, higher-order terms can be added to the potential according to Eq. (21). 

Steinhauer and Gasteiger [30] developed a new 3D descriptor based on the idea of radial distribution functions (RDFs), which is well known in physics and physico-chemistry in general and in X-ray diffraction in particular [31], The radial distribution function code (RDF code) is closely related to the 3D-MoRSE code. The RDF code is calculated by Eq. (25), where/is a scaling factor, N is the number of atoms in the molecule, p/ and pj are properties of the atoms i and/ B is a smoothing parameter, and Tij is the distance between the atoms i and j g(r) is usually calculated at a number of discrete points within defined intervals [32, 33]. 

An undesirable side-effect of an expansion that includes just a quadratic and a cubic term (as is employed in MM2) is that, far from the reference value, the cubic fimction passes through a maximum. This can lead to a catastrophic lengthening of bonds (Figure 4.6). One way to nci iimmodate this problem is to use the cubic contribution only when the structure is ,utficiently close to its equilibrium geometry and is well inside the true potential well. MM3 also includes a quartic term this eliminates the inversion problem and leads to an t". . 11 better description of the Morse curve. 

Figure 2.10. Part of the better description of the Morse and Exp.-6 potentials may be due to the fact that they have three parameters, while the Lennard-Jones potential only employs two. Since the equilibrium distance and the well depth fix two constants, there is no additional flexibility in the Lennard-Jones function to fit the form of the repulsive interaction.

Because stability depends on the ability of the particles to remain at discrete distances from each other, the well-known relation described by Morse (5) can be used as a starting point for stabilization mechanisms. As shown in Figure 3, two uncharged (and nonrepelling) bodies approach each other until they have attained an equilibrium distance corresponding to the position of minimum energy. The solid line actually represents a compromise between the repulsive forces operative between two atoms when their electron clouds overlap and the attraction which always exists between two bodies. 

Acute-Duration Exposure. There are numerous case reports of human fatalities (Adelson and Sunshine 1966 Allyn 1931 Breysse 1961 Campanya et al. 1989 Deng and Chang 1987 Freireich 1946 Hagley and South Morse et al. 1981 Osbem and Crapo 1981 Parra et al. 1991) or survivors who developed immediate as well as delayed neurological effects (Deng and Chang 1987 Kilbum 1993,... 

During initialization and final analysis of the QCT calculations, the numerical values of the Morse potential parameters that we have used are given as De = 4.580 eV, re = 0.7416 A, and (3 = 1.974 A-1. Moreover, the potential energy as a function of internuclear distances obtained from the analytical expression (with the above parameters) and the LSTH [75,76] surface asymptotically agreed very well. 

The deep energy minimum in a Morse curve is often called an energy well. ... 

Figure 9.19 Morse curve of a diatomic molecule in which the first excited state has a relatively shallow well...

As is well known (Morse and Berner, 1972) even very small concentrations of HPO (and some organic solutes) inhibit nucleation of CaC03, most likely because these adsorbates block essential surface sites on the substrate or on the mineral clusters. Mg2+ is known to inhibit many nucleation processes, especially also the nucleation of Mg bearing minerals. The water exchange rate of Mg2+ is slower than that of many cations, such as Pb2+, Cu2+, Zn2+, Cd2+, Ca2+. The inhibition effect of Mg2+ may be due to its sluggishness to (partial) dehydration. (Mg2+ has among the bivalent ions a very large enthalpy (-AHj,) of hydration.)... 

Dolomite is one of the most abundant sedimentary carbonate minerals but its mode of formation and its surface properties are less well known than for most other carbonate minerals. As we have mentioned, the nucleation of dolomites and its structural ordering is extremely hindered. There is a general trend for the "ideality" of dolomite to increase with the age of dolomite over geological time (Morse and Mackenzie, 1990). Most dolomites that are currently forming in surfacial sediments and that have been synthesized in the laboratory are calcium-rich and far from perfectly ordered. Such dolomites are commonly referred to as "protodolomites . Morse and Mackenzie (1990) have reviewed extensively the geochemistry (including the surface chemistry of dolomites and Mg-calcites. 

For typical values of p, re and V, encountered in molecules, Eq. (l.ll) is an excellent approximation to the exact solution (better than l part in 109). The Morse potential is the simplest member of a family of potentials that give rise to a vibrational spectrum of the functional form E(v) = coc(v +1/2) -a>exe(v +1/2)2. This is quite realistic at lower levels of excitation. The vibrational spectrum does not however suffice, by itself, to specify the potential uniquely. The dependence of the eigenvalues on the rotational state is therefore important. For / 0 (as well as for the / = 0) the energy eigenvalues are given by... 

Such considerations were extended to metal complexes in 1902 by Morse, who studied the distribution of divalent mercury between toluene and water at various Hg and CT concentrations. By taking complex formation in the aqueous phase into consideration Morse could determine the formation constants of HgCr and HgCb from distribution measurements, as well as the distribution constant of the neutral complex HgCl2. The overall extraction reaction can be written... 

The vibrational motion of atoms in diatomic molecules and, by extension, in crystals cannot be fully assimilated to harmonic oscillators, because the potential well is asymmetric with respect to Xq. This asymmetry is due to the fact that the short-range repulsive potential increases exponentially with the decrease of interionic distances, while coulombic terms vary with 1/Z (see, for instance, figures 1.13 and 3.2). To simulate adequately the asymmetry of the potential well, empirical asymmetry terms such as the Morse potential are introduced ... 

Figure 3.2 shows the experimental potential well for the H2 molecule, compared with the harmonic fit and the Morse potential. Horizontal lines represent quantized energy levels. Note that, as vibrational quantum number n increases, the energy gap between neighboring levels diminishes and the equilibrium distance increases, due to the anharmonicity of the potential well. The latter fact is responsible for the thermal expansion of the substance. 

The above data have been analyzed theoretically within the same model as described for the chemical shift tensor (5iso In order to understand the chemical shift observed within the KDP family, we concentrate here on the polarizability modified double-well potential of the protons, which has been modelled by two back-to-back Morse potentials (see Chap. 1 in this volume). The separation between the protons and the centre of the left (/) or right (r) PO4 shell... 

When the tip is brought even closer to the sample, the repulsive foree appears as a result of core-core interaction. A reduction of the net attractive is observed, as shown by the experimental data in Fig. 7.8. To describe the attractive force as well as repulsive force, the Morse function is a convenient choice (Slater 1963). In terms of interactions energy, and choose the equilibrium point as the zero point for z, it has the form... 

Sustainability in economic terms means the efficient management of scarce resources as well as a prospering industry and economy. In the environmental sense it means not placing an intolerable load on the ecosphere and maintaining the natural basis for life. In social terms it means that human beings are the center of concern (Morse, 1998). 

Once parameter values have been determined for particular bond distances, we need to choose a distance dependence. For hard donors like N and O, an inverse sixth power is normally chosen while for softer donors, 1/r5 or 1/r4 is used. However, the particular power dependence is not critical given the subsequent optimization of Morse and ligand-ligand repulsion terms. It also turns out that a distant-dependent AOM term delivers values which work reasonably well for any metal. For example, even... 

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