A Direct Experimental Determination of Electron Affinities, the Electron Affinity of Iodine
- 1 January 1935
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 3 (1) , 20-28
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1749548
Abstract
By observing the ratio of the negative ion emission to the electron emission from a thermionic surface of known temperature in an atmosphere of electronegative molecules of known pressure the electron affinity of the atoms can be calculated. A magnetron set up has been used to distinguish electron and ion currents. With a tungsten filament at about 2000°K, and an iodine atmosphere of about 1 micron pressure, the electron affinity of iodine atoms has been found to be 72.4±1.5 kcal.Keywords
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