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Perhaps the most dramatic impact of relativity on chemical thought is the insight that the chemical differences between row 5 (Z=41–54) and row 6 (Z=73–86) contain large, if not dominant, relativistic contributions. The further development of this story is outlined in Table 9.1.
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Pyykkö, P. (1993). Relativistic Effects and Heavy-Element Chemistry. In: Relativistic Theory of Atoms and Molecules II. Lecture Notes in Chemistry, vol 60. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-51488-3_9
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