Table 1:
Statistical properties of the ortho and para forms of D2 (Herzberg 1950). The ortho nuclear spin states are associated with even values of the rotational quantum number, J, and the para states with odd J. Only the lowest rotational level of each modification was included in the model. For D2+ and D2H+, the statistical properties of the lowest ortho and para levels are the same as in the case of D2; but the lowest para level lies 42.0 K and 50.2 K, respectively, above the lowest ortho level, which is the ground level (Polyansky & Tennyson 1999; Ramanlal & Tennyson 2004).