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THE CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF ELEMENTS correlate with their low lying electron configurations. The inertness of the rare gases He, Ne, Ar, Xe, Rn implies that their electron configurations are particularly stable. So when two elements react to form an ionic compound, the resulting electron configurations tend to be those of nearby inert gases. When atoms combine to form covalent bonds, the shared electrons tend to complete the pertinent subshells to also give inert gas configurations.
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Duffey, G.H. (2000). States of Molecular Electrons. In: Modern Physical Chemistry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4297-1_14
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