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Offline NewtoAtoms

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CN stability on comets
« on: May 24, 2008, 12:48:15 AM »
Hello,

any idea why CN is stable on comets, whereas it is unstable on earth (due to missing e-)

Thank you
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Re: CN stability on comets
« Reply #1 on: May 24, 2008, 01:30:36 AM »
Perhaps comets have inert environment such that CN radicals(which is extremely reactive) are unable to react. Could be wrong though  :P


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Re: CN stability on comets
« Reply #2 on: May 24, 2008, 04:31:48 AM »
Question is - is it radical or anion, or HCN molecule, and reports simply refer to CN bond discovered by spectrocopy?
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