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A brief account is given of the origin and early development of the idea of hardness, introduced to chemistry as hard and soft Lewis acids and bases. There is also a discussion of the merging of this early view of hardness with the modern definition, based on density functional theory.
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Pearson, R.G. (1993). Chemical hardness — A historical introduction. In: Sen, K.D. (eds) Chemical Hardness. Structure and Bonding, vol 80. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0036796
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