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> A reasonable approximation for a crystalline structure is balls – point masses – connected by springs, where the springs are covalent bonds, plus electrostati
by diegoperini 7y ago
> A reasonable approximation for a crystalline structure is balls – point masses – connected by springs, where the springs are covalent bonds, plus electrostatic effects between point charges.
Thanks! This is a great analogy.
- infinite8s 7y agoThis is the model used by most chemical simulation codes (that don't account for quantum chemistry). See for example the LAMMPS simulation software (https://lammps.sandia.gov/ https://lammps.sandia.gov/)
- adw 7y agoIf anything I wrote has been original, it would have been a big red flag :-)