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MR. P. TORKINGTON writes with reference to the communication under the above title in Nature of September 4, p. 370 : "It was stated that in the proposed solution the normal co-ordinate for vi involved only the co-ordinates Δi to Δn. In fact, it involves only the co-ordinates Δ1 to Δi. The linear transformation giving the (unnormalized) normal co-ordinates ηi is found to be
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A General Solution for the Force Constants of Polyatomic Molecules. Nature 162, 607 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162607b0
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