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On how some fundamental chemical concepts are correlated by arithmetic, geometric and harmonic means

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Examples are given of applications by Pauling, Mulliken, Marcus and G.E.Kimball of the three Pythagorian means to formulate the scales of electronegativity of the elements, to the calculations of rate constants of electron transfer cross-reactions, to the calculation of the observed rate constant as function of activation and diffusion rate constants in the case of mixed reaction-diffusion rates and to the calculation of the effective diffusion coefficient in solution of a salt AB as a whole from the diffusion coefficients of the ions in which it dissociates.

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Di Giacomo, F. On how some fundamental chemical concepts are correlated by arithmetic, geometric and harmonic means. Found Chem 25, 265–268 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10698-023-09466-x

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