This paper describes an investigation by ESR methods of the bonding of iron-group impurity ions with the configurations d3, d5, and d8 in LiF, NaF, KF, KMgF3, and KCdF3. The results indicate that π and σ bonding are comparable in magnitude and provide evidence for the relaxation of ligands on to impurity ions in the alkali halides.
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