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Electropositivity is a measure of an element's ability to donate electrons, and therefore form positive ions; thus, it is antipode to electronegativity. Mainly, this is an attribute of metals , meaning that, in general, the greater the metallic character of an element the greater the electropositivity.
Electron capture for almost all non-noble gas atoms involves the release of energy [4] and thus is exothermic. The positive values that are listed in tables of E ea are amounts or magnitudes. It is the word "released" within the definition "energy released" that supplies the negative sign to Δ E .
Separate values for each source are only given where one or more sources differ. Electronegativity is not a uniquely defined property and may depend on the definition.
Electron affinity can be defined in two equivalent ways. First, as the energy that is released by adding an electron to an isolated gaseous atom. The second (reverse) definition is that electron affinity is the energy required to remove an electron from a singly charged gaseous negative ion.
The valence electrons (here 3s 2 3p 3) are written explicitly for all atoms. Electron configurations of elements beyond hassium (element 108) have never been measured; predictions are used below. As an approximate rule, electron configurations are given by the Aufbau principle and the Madelung rule .
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Zn has three excited metastable states and 73 Zn has two. [47] The isotopes 65 Zn, 71 Zn, 77 Zn and 78 Zn each have only one excited metastable state. [45] The most common decay mode of a radioisotope of zinc with a mass number lower than 66 is electron capture. The decay product resulting from electron capture is an isotope of copper. [45] n ...
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