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Named after the German scientists Max Born and Fritz Haber, who developed it in 1919.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Born-Haber cycle
Today it means: A cycle concerned with the formation of an ionic compound from the reaction of a metal (often a Group I or Group II element) with a halogen or other non-metallic element such as oxygen; used to analyze reaction energies. Full definition →