Review Article

Methods of Calculating Ionization Energies of Multielectron (Five or More) Isoelectronic Atomic Ions

Table 1

Symbols, conversion factors, and constants (to 9 significant figures).

Symbol/constantValue/comment/definition

0.00729735254
Number of electrons remaining after ionization
eV1 electron volt = 1.60217648 × 10−19 Joules
Principal quantum number
Electron velocity
Number of residual electron-electron interactions
Mass number
Reduced mass (see Table 8 for individual values)
Screening constant for the ionizing electron
Screening for the remaining electron(s) after ionization
Screening for the remaining electron(s) before ionization
Proton number (nuclear charge)
Velocity of light 2.99792458 × 108 ms−1
Electron rest mass 9.10938215 × 10−31 kg
Proton rest mass 1.67262164 × 10−27 kg
Electron charge 1.60217649 × 10−19 C
Planck’s constant 6.62606896 × 10−34 Js
8.85418782 × 10−12 Fm−1