“…Since A scales with the polarizability, a, of the molecule DISCUSSION (30), the argon broadening coefficients of CH 4 and CH 3 should scale with their polarizabilities if the anisotropic disAlthough there are no published values for the pressure broadening coefficients of CH 3 to which to compare our persion interaction also dominates the CH 3 -Ar interruption function. However, the lowest order multipole moment of results, there is an abundant literature on the pressure broadening of methane's infrared absorption lines (21,22). In an CH 3 is the quadrupole moment so the quadrupole/induced dipole interaction, whose energy also scales as R 07 , should effort to put our limited amount of CH 3 data in context, we will briefly summarize some pertinent CH 4 results.…”