How long did the entire set of lanthanide EA calcs take?
These calculations represent about one year of my time, an additional year prior was spent building up the set of codes that was needed to tackle them. Q: I take it you don’t use the “lanthanoid” term over “lanthanide”. A: Lanthanide is an older term. The powers that be in scientific nomenclature prefer lanthanoid because the “-ide” suffix generally denotes a negative ion (which I’m focusing on here even though I refer to the neutral atoms as lanthanides). Perhaps chemists use the newer term, but I just searched the APS site (Physical Review series of journals), and I found >250 papers using “lanthanide” and none using “lanthanoid”. Interestingly, the spellchecker of the Open Office program I’m using to edit this rtf file recognizes “lanthanide” but not “lanthanoid.” Q: EA’s for lanthanides have been difficult to predict because their negative ions are unstable. A: They are not unstable, I’m reporting anion states that lie below the neutral ground state. Calculations have been difficul
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