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Breaking degeneracy in phosphorus pentachloride

Recently, in a class discussion, the following point was brought up: Although the axial and equatorial bond lengths in $\ce {PCl5}$ are inequivalent, when we consider the time-averaged $\ce {P-Cl}$...
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