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molecule comparison table

Subject has discovery in space date has definition has decompostion temperature

diatomic molecule a molecule containing only two atoms which can be of different elements < 10000 K

interstellar molecule Molecule present in interstellar space. As of late 1974, at least 33 molecular species had been identified with reasonable certainty.

PAH Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon

Subject	has discovery in space date	has definition	has decompostion temperature
diatomic molecule		a molecule containing only two atoms which can be of different elements	< 10000 K
interstellar molecule		Molecule present in interstellar space. As of late 1974, at least 33 molecular species had been identified with reasonable certainty.
PAH		Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon

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