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A theory of field desorption covering both covalent and ionic binding is presented. The mechanism corresponds to field ionization preceded by complete or partial ordinary desorption in the former and to direct ionic evaporation in the latter case. Comparison with experiment shows that field desorption of Ba can proceed via Ba+ or Ba+2. It is pointed out that field desorption could be used to investigate the shapes of potential curves in adsorption.
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