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4 The Treatment of Few-Body Reactions
Fig. 4.10 Plot of the N + N 2 reactive probability (from v = 0 to v = 5) as a function of the collision
energy
Fig. 4.11 Plot of the N + N 2 reactive probability (from v = 0, 1, 2 and 4) as a function of the total
energy
poured into the system by vibrationally exciting the reactants is scarcely effective in
promoting reactivity and does not lower the reactive threshold whereas the conversion
trade-off between collision and vibrational energy does not affect the location of the
threshold.