Coulomb's law: The force between two charged particles is proportional to the product of their charges and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.
How to apply it: Use Coulomb's law to explain trends in ionization energy, atomic radius, and lattice energy.
Course: AP Chemistry · Unit: Atomic Structure and Properties
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