“…It has a large (33.2 kcal/mol) barrier to dissociation and a very short He−He distance of 0.704 Å, which is shorter than both the H−H bond of the hydrogen molecule 9 and “the world's shortest bond” 26 of the H−D molecule. A number of other noble gas diatomic dications, such as NeXe 2+ , , ArXe 2+ , NeKr 2+ , Ne 2 2+ , 30 NeAr 2+ , , and HeNe 2+ , are known. Other relevant diatomic dications in which at least one of the partners is a noble gas atom include BeHe 2+ , He(Ne)-B 2+ , BeNe 2+ , CNe 2+ , NNe 2+ , SiNe 2+ , , MgNe 2+ , NeAr 2+ , BeAr 2+ , BAr 2+ , CAr 2+ , ,, NAr 2+ , Ar 2 2+ …”