Repulsive charge forces

New elements and isotopes of known elements are made by nucleosynthesis the repulsive electrical forces of like-charged particles are overcome when very fast particles collide. 

The surface potential can play an important role in the behavior of liposomes in vivo and in vitro (e.g.. Senior, 1987). In general, charged liposomes ai e more stable against aggregation and fusion than uncharged vesicles. However, physically stable neutral liposomes have been described (e.g.. Van Dalen et al., 1988). They are sufficiently stabilized by repulsive hydration forces, which counteract the attractive van der Waals forces. 

When electrons are in the region between two nuclei, attractive electrical forces exceed repulsive electrical forces, leading to the stable arrangement of a chemical bond. Remember that electrons are not point charges but are spread out over a relatively large volume. 

Repulsive coulombic forces exist between charged polyions. These are attenuated by the bound counterions conversely they are stronger for polyions having a higher concentration of free counterions. When the charge along the polyion, Q, is small the forces involved are purely coulombic repulsion forces. However, when Q exceeds a certain value, counterions condense on the polyions and reduce the repulsive forces. 

Ion binding reduces the repulsive forces between the charged groups on the polyanion but, unless the counterions are site-bound, the repulsive osmotic forces are not affected. At full neutralization the coulombic forces along the polymer chain become zero. However, the polymer does not contract, because the osmotic forces remain unless, of course, all the cations become site-bound. (Of course, in the case of a free weak acid the concentration of mobile hydrogen ions is very small and the polymer adopts a compact form.)... 

The selection of the solvent is based on the retention mechanism. The retention of analytes on stationary phase material is based on the physicochemical interactions. The molecular interactions in thin-layer chromatography have been extensively discussed, and are related to the solubility of solutes in the solvent. The solubility is explained as the sum of the London dispersion (van der Waals force for non-polar molecules), repulsion, Coulombic forces (compounds form a complex by ion-ion interaction, e.g. ionic crystals dissolve in solvents with a strong conductivity), dipole-dipole interactions, inductive effects, charge-transfer interactions, covalent bonding, hydrogen bonding, and ion-dipole interactions. The steric effect should be included in the above interactions in liquid chromatographic separation. 

For slow neutron-induced reactions that do not involve resonances, we know (Chapter 10) that ct ( ) °c 1 /vn so that (ctv) is a constant. For charged particle reactions, one must overcome the repulsive Coulomb force between the positively charged nuclei. For the simplest reaction, p + p, the Coulomb barrier is 550 keV. But, in a typical star such as the sun, kT is 1.3 keV, that is, the nuclear reactions that occur are subbarrier, and the resulting reactions are the result of barrier penetration. (At a proton-proton center-of-mass energy of 1 keV, the barrier penetration probability is 2 x 10-10). At these extreme subbarrier energies, the barrier penetration factor can be approximated as ... 

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