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of the molecule

For microscopic, atomic-level systems like a molecule, angular momentum can only have specific discrete values given by

where is a non-negative integer and is the reduced Planck constant.

Also, for a diatomic molecule the moment of inertia is

where
* is the reduced mass of the molecule and
* is the average distance between the centers of the two atoms in the molecule.

So, substituting the

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