“A diatomic molecule is a molecule with one atom too many.”

— Arthur Leonard Schawlow

as quoted in [Dave DeMille, Diatomic molecules, a window onto fundamental physics, Physics Today, 2015, December, 34, 68, 12, 10.1063/PT.3.3020]

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