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It is shown that the substantial bonding-energy and work-function changes associated with inert gases adsorbed on metal surfaces arise from an admixture of polar excited configurations that occurs as the excited-state charge-transfer instability is crossed.
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Flynn et al. (1981) studied this question.
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