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Science 17 March 2000:
Vol. 287. no. 5460, pp. 1941 - 1942
DOI: 10.1126/science.287.5460.1941
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Perspectives

MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY:
H3+--an Ion with Many Talents

Benjamin J. McCall and Takeshi Oka

The H3+ ion plays an important role in diverse fields from chemistry to astronomy and planetary science. In this Perspective, McCall and Oka report on a recent discussion meeting of the Royal Society where researchers from all these fields came to discuss the present and future of this ubiquitous molecule.

Department of Chemistry, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, and the Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA. E-mail: bjmccall{at}uchicago.edu, t-oka{at}uchicago.edu

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