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IN connexion with the series of communications under the above title1, I wish to direct attention to an old paper which contains an accurate computation of the metastable 5S state of the carbon atom2. The value given in that paper is 4.3 eV. above the groundstate of carbon, and the uncertainty is less than 0.1 eV. This is equivalent to 100 ± 2 kcal./mole.
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Nature, 159, 129 (1947).
Bacher, R. F., and Goudsmit, S., Phys. Rev., 46, 948 (1934), see p. 962
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GOUDSMIT, S. Heat of Atomization of Carbon. Nature 159, 742–743 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159742b0
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