It’s a helpful rule of thumb: Main group elements prefer forming bonds that give them eight valence electrons; transition metals go for 18 electrons. Now scientists have shown that main group elements ...
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Vol. 223, No. 1154 (May 6, 1954), pp. 306-323 (18 pages) The construction of spin eigenfunctions and the ...
IN the development of the resonating-valence-bond theory of metals, it has become evident that the characteristic structural feature of metals is the possession by each atom or each of many atoms in ...