Timeline for Is shielding of electrons really best described as shielding or is it really Coulombic repulsion between electrons?
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| Jan 5, 2015 at 15:03 | comment | added | JHK | Electrons in the same shell do have an effect on ionisation energy, but electrons in a higher shell are "spread out" and have only a small effect. You have to picture them as an electron cloud - which will push the electron of interest from all directions and therefor cancels itself for the most part. | |
| Jan 5, 2015 at 14:41 | comment | added | RobChem | Why do electrons that are outside electron of interest have no effect? Surely they also repel the electron on interest TOWARDS the positively charged nucleus. | |
| Jan 5, 2015 at 14:40 | vote | accept | RobChem | ||
| Jan 5, 2015 at 13:59 | history | answered | JHK | CC BY-SA 3.0 |