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       Daily question-160
   DIR By: Shiva
       Date: May 4, 2013, 6:20 am
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       Electron affinities of nobles gases are zero. Why so?
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       Re: Daily question-160
   DIR By: Chemist@
       Date: May 5, 2013, 6:52 am
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       They have stable electron configurations.
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       Re: Daily question-160
   DIR By: Shiva
       Date: May 6, 2013, 9:45 am
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       well, it is because noble gases contain filled s and p
       sub-shells and the incoming electron has to go to a shell with
       large values of n (principal quantum number)
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