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a single minimum.
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If you have an extra electron on it
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and you have a carboxylate anion,
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then again it's just one species,
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a single minimum.
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And there's evidence of that from infrared spectroscopy
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that we'll talk about next semester.
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But don't be disappointed that you're not able to predict this.
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A lot of really smart,
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experienced people couldn't predict it.
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This is lore.
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If you look it up in the Oxford English Dictionary