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WE have investigated the existence of stable primary OH− ions in the negative ion mass spectrum of water vapour. Mann, Hustrulid and Tate1 specially looked for OH− ions in their mass spectrometric investigation of the ionization and dissociation of water vapour but found none. On the basis of this evidence Laidler2 suggested extremely stable electronic configurations for the stable states of the OH− ion which would be strongly repulsive to an approaching hydrogen atom. The hydrogen would thus play no part in the electronic excitation.
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DE SOUZA, B., GREEN, J. Hydroxyl Ions in the Mass Spectrum of Water Vapour. Nature 203, 1165 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/2031165a0
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