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Differential cross sections have been measured for high-energy electron scattering from diborane. The effect of chemical binding was seen by comparing experiment with the calculation for an independent-atom model. An ab initio molecular calculation of the elastic scattering was in good agreement with the experiment, and thus the proportion of the electron distribution involved in the chemical binding was estimated.
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Hirota et al. (1981) studied this question.
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