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Abstract: "To arrive at a clear and atomically realistic representation of the process of ionic screening, a model with the following necessary and justifiable constraints was devised. 1) The minimum internuclear distance (IND) between a negative site on the membrane and a cation screening the site is equal to the sum of the site's "equivalent" radius (rs) + the diameter of a water molecule (≈2.8Å) + crystal radius of the cation (rc)." P.C109 right column bottom paragraph: "Because only the first layer of water molecules around a monatomic cation has energies of interaction with the cation that are large compared with the thermal energy (ref 38), the thickness of the hydration shell around an alkaline-earth cation is approximately equal to the diameter of a water molecule (~2.8 Å). (This result can differ markedly from that obtained when the so-called hydrated radius of a counterion, derived from mobility measurements (ref 38), is used (cf. Ref. 8).)" Other sources give value of 2.63 Å (Angstrom) |