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Is there any binding force between neighboring Neon atoms? Or do you make the "solid" by just bunching them together until they have no place to go (like stacki
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Is there any binding force between neighboring Neon atoms? Or do you make the "solid" by just bunching them together until they have no place to go (like stacking oranges)?
- motohagiography 4y agolayman question from me would be whether neon acts like a superfluid the way helium does at those temperatures, and whether that property is part of what makes this approach different.
- klyrs 4y agoThis is totally irrelevant to the topic at hand, but supersolids are a fun brainmelter https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersolid https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersolid
- denhaus 4y agoThese are called London Dispersion forces. You can think of it somewhat like an electrostatic interaction except on a “temporary” basis, like fluctuations in the electron densities around nuclei spontaneously cause weak attraction between these atoms. The weakness of the attraction of these forces is why Ne atoms are so easily broken by thermal forces, ie why Ne is a monoatomic gas. So yes, there is a binding force, but it is very weak.