513.001 Molecular and Solid State Physics

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Ionic binding in NaCl

The center-to-center separation between the Na+ ion and the Cl- ion in a NaCl molecule is 0.251 nm. Assuming that the two ions can be treated as point charges, what energy is needed to separate the ions an infinite distance apart?

E = eV