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Offline a student

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Determining I (spin number)
« on: September 15, 2009, 09:47:15 AM »
hi my friend
I don't know how should I determine the number of spins for example I know that dotrium has I=1 or the spin number of 35Cl is 3/2 but I don't know how I should measure that.
I would be grateful if you help me :D

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Re: Determining I (spin number)
« Reply #1 on: September 19, 2009, 05:06:10 AM »
I assume you mean Deuterium? I don't think there is a way of determining spin numbers by rote, rather than just observing them - otherwise places like Wiki would not be littered with estimated spin numbers for the transuranics etc.

As to how you actually measure them, I guess things like ESR would help.

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