What is the biggest known difference between re and r0? Where r0 is the average bond length of the lowest vibrational state, and re is the location where the potential is lowest.
For a perfect harmonic oscillator, these are the same (notice that the peak probability is exactly at the minimum of the potential):
What is the largest known difference between re and r0 in a real molecule?
This is important because the CRC Handbook on Chemistry and Physics almost always gives r0 because that's what can be determined more easily from experiment, but ab initio geometry optimization almost always gives re, yet many publications do not even say which type of bond length they are reporting.
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