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Grade 11Inorganic Chemistry

Why is Bohr's model of an atom only valid for uni-electronic species?

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In any atom there would be an electrostatic force due to nucleus to an electron which is an attraction force and therefore it would act on an individual electron because further in case of multielectrons there would a repulsion force of elctrons on other electrons.