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CHEMISTS feel a difficulty in explaining molecular combination in terms of electrical attraction between the apparently revolving electrons which seem to compose the peripheral parts of an atom ; and they naturally prefer a more static arrangement. Indeed, it is not easy to explain the stability of molecules in terms of any kind of purely electrical attraction between the atoms composing them: and yet, ever since Faraday, there has been an instinctive feeling that electrical attraction and chemical affinity are one and the same.
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LODGE, O. Bohr and Langmuir Atoms. Nature 110, 341 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110341b0
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