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Not clear where that's coming from, that site lists the bond length for HeHe as 300pm but for HH it's around 75 which would make Hydrogen ~1/4 the size of heliu
by fencepost 10y ago
Not clear where that's coming from, that site lists the bond length for HeHe as 300pm but for HH it's around 75 which would make Hydrogen ~1/4 the size of helium.
On the scale of individual atoms I don't remember enough about my chemistry and physics courses to recall whether there's supposed to be much physical difference between the "size" of the region where the first 2 electrons are between different atoms, nor do I know if that's being conceptualized as orbits, shells, abstract concepts of energy levels of something even weirder these days.
- effie 10y agoI think the helium in the harddrive consists mostly of single independently moving atoms, not molecules of two. Those have very small binding energy, much smaller compared to kT.