Re: Explanation of the positive E.S. charge

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• Subject: Re: Explanation of the positive E.S. charge
• From: lod-at-pacbell-dot-net
• Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 06:21:57 -0800
• Subscriber: lod-at-pacbell-dot-net Fri Jan 31 23:06:54 1997

Richard Hull wrote:

> I would imagine with electron emission, this might be reduced a bit so that
> what we might be seeing is Rydberg atoms.  I have always left this
> possibility open.  Rydberg atoms are bipolar!!  The outer electron orbital
> in a Rydberg can cause the atom to be a 100s of microns in diameter,
> orbiting over an area 10s of millions of times larger than the normal
> quantum number n=1.  Rydbergs can easily attain n=100 or more.


What is a Rydberg atom?  

-GL

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