\begin{table}%t1 \caption{\label{tab1}W49N absorption line components.} %\centerline {\small \begin{tabular}{c c c c c c c } \hline\hline $v_{\rm LSR}$ & $\Delta v$ & $N({\rm OH^+})$ & $N({\rm H_2O^+})$ & $\rm OH^+/ H_2O^+$ & $f({\rm H_2})$\tablefootmark{a} \\ $\rm km~s^{-1}$ & $\rm km~s^{-1}$ & $10^{13}\rm cm^{-2}$ & $10^{13}\rm cm^{-2}$ \\ \hline 6.6 & 5.1 & 2.9 & 0.42 & 6.8 & 0.034 \\ 13.4 & 4.6 & 2.2 & 0.69 & 3.2 & 0.082 \\ 21.2 & 7.0 & 8.2 & 0.56 & 14.6 & 0.015 \\ 34.7 & 9.0 & 26.1 & 2.68 & 9.7 & 0.023 \\ 43.5 & 8.4 & 7.5 & 0.72 & 10.5 & 0.021 \\ 62.5 & 13.3 & 18.9 & 1.67 & 11.3 & 0.019 \\ \hline \end{tabular}} \tablefoot{\tablefoottext{a}{Using Eq.~(1) for an assumed temperature of 100~K and an assumed electron abundance of $1.4 \times 10^{-4}$. The required molecular fraction, $f({\rm H}_2)$, scales as $T^{-0.5}~x_{\rm e}$.}} \end{table}