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Is it possible to isolate pure ortho-hydrogen ? if not, why ? (3+3

Is it possible to isolate pure ortho-hydrogen ? If not, why ? (3+3
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  • Suman Kumar Best Answer
    https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/96680/why-isnt-pure-ortho-hydrogen-possible-to-obtain%23:~:text%3DYou%2520cannot%...
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    Suman Kumar
    it has been possible to get pure para hydrogen by cooling ordinary hydrogen gas to a very low temperature (close to 20 K) but it is never possible to get a sample of hydrogen conta...
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  • Dinesh khalmaniya thankyou
    You cannot make ortho hydrogen this way because it does not represent the absolute ground state of the system. The 75% comes from the degeneracy of the Boltzmann factor: at low tem...
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