The elevator pitch is that I'm trying to figure out why oxygen reacts with silicon crystals. The most obvious mechanism is forbidden because it violates conservation of spin angular momentum (is "spin forbidden"), so I'm trying to test several other ways it might react using a supersonic oxygen beam in an ultra-high vacuum chamber with a mass spectrometer.
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The elevator pitch is that I'm trying to figure out why oxygen reacts with silicon crystals. The most obvious mechanism is forbidden because it violates conservation of spin angular momentum (is "spin forbidden"), so I'm trying to test several other ways it might react using a supersonic oxygen beam in an ultra-high vacuum chamber with a mass spectrometer.
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