![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081107032439im_/http://www.nsf.gov/images/x.gif) News From the Field Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
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August 12, 2008
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A paper in the August 8 issue of Science provides the first hard evidence for the simultaneous break-up of a molecule into three equal parts. Previous studies of so-called "concerted break-ups" had only suggested their existence, said co-author Anna Krylov, a USC theoretical chemist.
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