2. The ionization energy of lithium is 520.2 kJ/mol, and the electron affinity of hydrogen is 72.8 kJ/mol.
(a) Find the separation distance in LiH at which the Coulomb potential energy equals the energy cost of removing an electron from Li and adding it to H.
(b) The measured electric dipole moment of the molecule LiH is 2.00 × 10^(-29) C · m. What is the fractional ionic character of LiH?
(c) Instead of removing an electron from Li and attaching it to H, we could regard the formation of LiH as occurring by removing an electron from H and attaching it to Li (electron affinity = 59.6 kJ/mol). Why don't we consider this as the formation process?