Re: free electrons vs. "fully ionized"

Posted by Southern Man on Nov 20, 2002 at 09:33
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Re: free electrons vs. "fully ionized" (Natalie Smith)

"Whoa, right there!!!"

Neighhhhhh! :)

It's been a long time since I had to know such things so I will certainly defer to your current knowledge. "All it means is that four of the electrons that the neutral Rhenium would normally possess are now spending a disproportionate amount of their time closer to the Oxygens." Maybe I was taught wrong or misunderstood what I was taught. I was under the impression that the electron cloud around each atom was relatively the same size as the distance between atoms. Therefore the oxygen atoms grabbed the electrons and this electrical charge difference was what held the compound together.

"...knowing all this, could you really try to claim that the behavior of a bare Rhenium nucleus has any bearing on the bulk statistical behavior of a real-world sample?"

If 100 Rem of gammas will kill you, will 100mRem be a problem? If Anyman's report of a nine orders of magnitude change in decay rate is correct, then isn't it reasonable that there could be an order or two of magnitude difference with a few electron difference?

I'm trying to show here that the statement that ionization in rocks never occurs is false and that if you can produce a change of 10e9 with full ionization then we should see easily discernable differences with naturally occurring charge variances.

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