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THIS book, written by a chemist for chemists, sets out to review recent progress in atomic and molecular theory and to correlate various properties of matter such as cohesion in terms of the electronic structure of atoms. The first section is devoted mainly to a description of the quantum numbers of electrons in atoms, the principles underlying the electronic structure of atoms and the characteristic features of the Periodic Table. The quantum numbers used in the old orbit theory are described in some detail and then a brief account is given of the modifications found necessary in the new quantum mechanics.
The Electronic Structure and Properties of Matter:
By an Introductory Study of certain Properties of Matter in the Light of Atomic Numbers. Being Vol. 1 of ” A Comprehensive Treatise of Atomic and Molecular Structure”. By C. H. Douglas Clark. Pp. xxvi + 374. (London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1934.) 21s. net.
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The Electronic Structure and Properties of Matter. Nature 136, 127 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136127a0
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