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S May 23, 2023 at 22:26 history closed Mithoron
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S May 23, 2023 at 22:26 comment added Todd Minehardt Does this answer your question? At what temperature can molecules no longer form?
May 23, 2023 at 14:00 comment added Mithoron related chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/61621/…
May 23, 2023 at 13:58 comment added Mithoron It's a duplicate of chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/99110/… though...
May 22, 2023 at 20:58 comment added Mithoron There certainly are such temperatures, million K should be plenty enough. But yeah, an answer like that would be nice.
May 22, 2023 at 20:39 comment added feetwet @Mithoron Just an elaboration of that would be a helpful answer. E.g., "There is no finite temperature at which all covalent bonds are broken, because ....?" And maybe, "The dissociated fraction of a mass varies with what functional form of temperature?, or what other variables?"
May 22, 2023 at 20:08 comment added Mithoron sigh Heat stuff to million K and what we call chemistry is gone. There is no sharp threshold. What would you want, point when less than one ppb of CO remains undissociated?
May 22, 2023 at 20:04 comment added feetwet @Mithoron that one is about what happens if all bonds are broken and then the mass is cooled. This one is whether heating actually will break all bonds (and if so, at what point).
May 22, 2023 at 20:00 comment added Mithoron How is this any different from your old question? chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/34964/… besides being more focused...
May 22, 2023 at 19:58 history edited Mithoron CC BY-SA 4.0
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May 22, 2023 at 19:24 comment added feetwet @Proscionexium if necessary, yes. I'm assuming that covalent bonds are both the strongest and the most meaningful for chemical properties, but if there are other inter-atomic bonds that can survive energy sufficient to totally homolyze a mass, and that affect the chemo-physical behavior of a mass of atoms, that would be a helpful answer (though perhaps to a related question I should pose?).
May 22, 2023 at 19:22 comment added Proscionexium Maybe this idea is not meant to generalize over entirety of bonds. Because bonds form in so radically different environments.
May 22, 2023 at 19:20 history edited feetwet CC BY-SA 4.0
Trying to clarify per comments.
May 22, 2023 at 18:23 history edited feetwet CC BY-SA 4.0
Fix based on comment explaining that thermal dissociation is only homolytic
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May 23, 2023 at 22:26
May 22, 2023 at 16:46 history asked feetwet CC BY-SA 4.0