Why is the election affinity of beryllium negative?
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Well, beryllium has a POSITIVE electron affinity, because it gets less stable when we try to fill the next orbitals, the
The electron affinity is the change in energy due to adding a new electron to an atom or molecule. The to-scale electronic structure of beryllium is:
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And so, it takes energy input in order to place a new electron into a