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•• Consider the molecules HCl and DCl, where D denotes the deuterium, or heavy hydrogen, a...

•• Consider the molecules HCl and DCl, where D denotes the deuterium, or heavy hydrogen, atom, D = 2H. (a) Explain why the force constant k and bond length R0 should be about the same for DCl as for HCl. (b) The spacing of adjacent vibrational levels in HCl is ℏωc ≈ 0.37 eV. What is the corresponding spacing in DCl? (You may treat the Cl atom as fixed.)

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