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Iodine is a covalent crystal
Stepanov I.A.1
1Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
Email: istepanov@email.com
Поступила в редакцию: 5 октября 2004 г.
Выставление онлайн: 19 сентября 2005 г.

Earlier it has been supposed that the lattice energy of iodine is about 70 kJ/mol, therefore, it was considered to be a molecular crystal. In the present paper, it is shown that the lattice energy of iodine is at least 10 times bigger, thus iodine is a covalent crystal. In the previous works the role of fluctuations was not taken into account.