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Answer by Rahat Hasan for Why energy is released (most of the time) when...

I was also wondering about this question after learning electron affinity.So i found a thought process.We know from atomic structure topic that , if an electron want to jumps from lower orbit to higher...

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Answer by Ofek Gillon for Why energy is released (most of the time) when...

When an electron is bounded by the electric charge of a nucleus, it doesn't have enough energy to "run away" to infinity. Meaning you actually need to give energy to the electron to tear it apart from...

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Answer by Sudhanshu Bharadwaj for Why energy is released (most of the time)...

This Because of the Decrease Potential Energy (of the attractive force) between the Nucleus and the electron (Which Dominates over the the increase in potential due to electron -electron...

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Why energy is released (most of the time) when electrons are added to atoms?

[Though initially the question may seem to belong to stack exchange chemistry but I believe that I would get a better physical explanation over here. ] Currently I was reading about electron affinity...

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