By means of low‐frequency internal‐friction measurements in an inverted torsion pendulum at 0.5 to 15 Hz, the so‐called γ‐relaxation in high‐purity molybdenum (occurring between 400 and 550 K) is investigated on predeformed single crystals with torsion axes 〈011〉 or 〈112〉. The sum of the formation enthalpy of widely separated kink pairs on a0〈111〉/2 screw dislocations, 2HkM, and of the migration enthalpy for the migration of the kinks along these dislocations, H kM, is obtained by the peak‐shift method and found to be 2Hk + H kM = (1.275 ± 0.03) eV. This agrees with the value 2Hk = 1.22 eV deduced earlier from the analysis of the strain‐rate and temperature dependence of the flow stress of pure molybdenum after cyclic deformation into saturation. The present results are in full agreement with the view that in refractory b.c.c. metals the kink‐pair formation on screw dislocations controls the γ‐relaxation as well as the plastic deformation at low and intermediate temperatures.