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The most important properties of an atom are its radius and its typical excitation energy. These characterise the atom both as a molecular building block and in condensed matter.
Necessaria est methodus ad veritatem investigandam.
René Descartes
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Povh, B., Rosina, M. (2017). Many Electron Atoms – Shell Structure. In: Scattering and Structures. Graduate Texts in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-54515-7_5
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