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The dielectric strength of air (ie the maximum electric field that the material can withstand under ideal conditions without undergoing electrical breakdown and becoming electrically conductive) is 3 000 kV ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dielectric_strength#Break_down_field_strength ). In...

Okay, thanks for the clarification, I understand now.

so what this is saying is that, in general, the ground state is not necessarily the lowest shell, right? It's the state in which the electrons of the valence shell are as low as they can possibly be, correct me if i am wrong.

If the ionization energy is the difference between the the ground state of the neutral atom and the single ionized state, it should allow the electron in the closest shell to the nucleus to jump all the way out of the atom and become a free electron right? We shouldn't be talking about the...

Hi, The ionization energy is defined as the minimum amount of energy required to remove the most loosely bound electron, the valence electron, of an isolated neutral gaseous atom. Our physics teacher also told us while explaining this concept in the context of energy levels, that it is equal...