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HEITLER and London have calculated the potential energy of the ground state of H2, and they have found besides the known 11S state, another potential energy curve which is called by them 13S. This curve is higher than the 11S curve by an amount equal to the heat of dissociation of the hydrogen molecule. Stuckelberg and Winans have used this curve to explain in a very nice manner the continuous spectrum of the hydrogen molecule. Their explanation, in brief, is that transitions from any one of the excited triplet levels to this 13S level give rise to a continuous spectrum.
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KAPLAN, J. Dissociation of Hydrogen by Collisions of the Second Kind. Nature 123, 162–163 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/123162a0
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