• core electrons of an atom form the atomic core. Core electrons are tightly bound to the nucleus. Therefore, unlike valence electrons, core electrons play...
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    atomic core. Electrons play a vital role in numerous physical phenomena due to their charge and mobile nature. In metals, the outermost electrons are delocalised...
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    valence electrons and form a negative ion, or else to share valence electrons and form a covalent bond. Similar to a core electron, a valence electron has...
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    3p3, where [Ne] signifies the core electrons whose configuration in phosphorus is identical to that of neon. Electron behavior is elaborated by other...
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    Auger effect (redirect from Auger electrons)
    from a different shell of the same atom. When a core electron is removed, leaving a vacancy, an electron from a higher energy level may fall into the vacancy...
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    describing the location and wave-like behavior of an electron in an atom. This function describes an electron's charge distribution around the atom's nucleus...
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  • number of electrons per shell. For phosphorus (element 15) as an example, the concise form is [Ne] 3s2 3p3. Here [Ne] refers to the core electrons which are...
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    An electron microscope is a microscope that uses a beam of electrons as a source of illumination. It uses electron optics that are analogous to the glass...
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  • collecting the emitted secondary electrons generated in the electron cascade that follows the creation of the primary core hole in the absorption process...
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    which a core electron is excited by an incident X-ray photon and then this excited state decays by emitting an X-ray photon to fill the core hole. The...
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    periods and electron wavefunctions that approximate, under some conditions, classical orbits of electrons about the nuclei. The core electrons shield the...
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  • of 1.75. In the extended Hückel method, only valence electrons are considered; the core electron energies and functions are supposed to be more or less...
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    energy order for the 55th electron outside the xenon core proceeds as follows in the isoelectronic series of caesium (55 electrons): Cs0: 6s < 6p < 5d < 7s...
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    In atomic physics and quantum chemistry, the electron configuration is the distribution of electrons of an atom or molecule (or other physical structure)...
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    called an electron capture supernova. ... In an electron capture supernova, as the core runs out of fuel, gravity forces electrons in the core into their...
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    a core state electron can be removed leaving behind a hole. As this is an unstable state, the core hole can be filled by an outer shell electron, whereby...
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    mites). When a stellar core collapses, the pressure causes electrons and protons to fuse by electron capture. Without electrons, which keep nuclei apart...
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  • nearly free electron model (or NFE model and quasi-free electron model) is a quantum mechanical model of physical properties of electrons that can move...
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    surface. It belongs to the family of photoemission spectroscopies in which electron population spectra are obtained by irradiating a material with a beam of...
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    monochromator, to a range where core electrons can be excited (0.1-100 keV). The edges are, in part, named by which core electron is excited: the principal...
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  • many-electron Schrödinger equation can be very much simplified if electrons are divided in two groups: valence electrons and inner core electrons. The...
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  • scattering (XRS) is non-resonant inelastic scattering of X-rays from core electrons. It is analogous to vibrational Raman scattering, which is a widely...
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    systems with negative electron affinity and the emission from excited states, or a few hundred keV photons for core electrons in elements with a high...
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  • that describe core electron correlation. These core-valence sets (cc-pCVXZ) can be used to approach the exact solution to the all-electron problem, and...
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    to replace the atomic all-electron potential (full-potential) such that core states are eliminated and the valence electrons are described by pseudo-wavefunctions...
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    modern 18-column periodic table, the d electrons of zinc, cadmium, and (almost always) mercury behave as core electrons and do not take part in bonding. This...
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  • anomalous Zeeman effect. In December 1924, Wolfgang Pauli showed that the core electron angular momentum was not related to the effect as had previously been...
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  • developed.[vague][non-primary source needed][non-primary source needed] Core-electron binding energy (CEBE) shifts correlate linearly with the Hammett substituent...
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  • related to Electron shell diagrams. Periodic table (electron configurations) Electron counting 18-electron rule Core charge Re: Why do electron shells have...
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    Immune electron microscopy (more often called immunoelectron microscopy) is the equivalent of immunofluorescence, but it uses electron microscopy rather...
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