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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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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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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[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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