ground state

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Refers to the relaxed electronic state of a molecule, or the lowest energy occupied molecular orbital configuration. In contrast to the excited state, the ground state does not emit photons or relax to a lower electronic level. It may have vibrational sublevels. The nature of the ground state can be probed by studying a molecule's absorption spectrum.

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