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I have been looking at websites on electron affinity. My notes report it as 'energy released when an atom gains an electron. Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_affinity says the amount of energy released when detaching an electron from a singly charged negative ion,[1] i.e., the energy change for the process
X- → X + e−
This seems the reverse? Also on that same Wikipedia page it says you can't get negative elctron affinity values yet on good old hyperphysics http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/Hbase/chemical/eleaff.html it uses a negative convention. I thought this was a modern site?
Can someone clear this up? Cheers!
X- → X + e−
This seems the reverse? Also on that same Wikipedia page it says you can't get negative elctron affinity values yet on good old hyperphysics http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/Hbase/chemical/eleaff.html it uses a negative convention. I thought this was a modern site?
Can someone clear this up? Cheers!