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<p>In <a href="page.php?w=quantum_mechanics">quantum mechanics</a>, a <b>repulsive state</b> is an <a href="page.php?w=electronic_state">electronic state</a> of a <a href="page.php?w=molecule">molecule</a> for which there is no minimum in the <a href="page.php?w=potential_energy">potential energy</a>. This means that the state is unstable and unbound since the potential energy smoothly decreases with the interatomic distance and the atoms repel one another. In such a state there are no discrete <a href="page.php?w=molecular_vibration">vibrational energy levels</a>;</p><p>
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