L. Pauling
Sep 1, 1949
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Abstract
Sulfur is unique among the elements in consisting in its standard state of octatomic molecules. It is interesting that the stability of the S8 molecule can be understood by consideration of the forces determining the orientation around the sulfur-sulfur single bond.