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We know that in a metal the outer orbits of an enormous number of atoms overlap to form a number of molecular orbitals. Thus, a large number of energy levels are crowded together into bands.
General Chemistry 10th Edition
by Ebbing, Darrell; Gammon, Steven D.
Published by
Cengage Learning
ISBN 10:
1-28505-137-8
ISBN 13:
978-1-28505-137-6
Chapter 21 - Chemistry of the Main-Group Elements - Questions and Problems - Page 928: 21.9
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