Products of Dissociation in Nitrogen

Abstract

Use is made of four regions of predissociation in the triplet band systems of nitrogen in order to determine the products of dissociation from the known triplet states. Mulliken's proposal that the products of dissociation in the ${}_{}{}^3{}_{}{}^{}\Sigma {\mu }^{+}$ level are two ${}_{}{}^4{}_{}{}^{}S$ atoms does not agree with the evidence which is presented here. This evidence proves that the products are a ${}_{}{}^4{}_{}{}^{}S$ and a ${}_{}{}^2{}_{}{}^{}D$ atom. The bearing of these results on the heat of dissociation of nitrogen is briefly discussed.