Richard Chats with Google Bard about probability preserving transformations, atoms, the vacuum, and the past
Richard: Can you help explain the Madelung energy and the heat of formation of ionic crystals? Bard: Sure. The Madelung energy is the electrostatic energy of interaction between the ions in an ionic crystal. It is named after Erwin Madelung, who first calculated it in 1919. The Madelung energy can be calculated using a series
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