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exchange-repulsion

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exchange-repulsion [iks′chānj ri‚pəl·shən]
(physical chemistry)
A force that arises between neighboring molecules when they are close enough that their electron clouds overlap and, as a consequence of the Pauli exclusion principle, electrons are squeezed out from the region between the nuclei, which them repel each other.


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