The structure of low-lying quadrupole states of 96 Ru was calculated within the Quasiparticle-Phonon Model. It is shown that symmetric and mixed-symmetry properties manifest themselves via the structure of the excited states. The first 2 + state is collective and neutron and proton transition matrix elements M n and M p are in-phase, while the neutron and proton transition matrix elements M n and M p have opposite signs for the third 2 + state. This property of the third 2 + state leads to a

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