The Man
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Classically there are no electrical fields between two neutral particles. And they don't require such fields to approach each other for bonding. Translational kinetic energy from (say) heat is sufficient to have them bump into each other, and past a certain energy, they can bond.
Who said they "require such fields to approach each other"? Who limited the fields to just electrical? Are the orbitspheres approaching each other now neutral?
Simple overall charge neutrality does not denote a lack of electromagnetic fields. Especially when charges are not evenly distributed or stationary as in the case of an atom. Just a plasma can be charge neutral and the ambipolar electrical field of the plasma helps maintain that overall neutrality
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambipolar_diffusion
Ever hear of magnetism?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetism
So no, overall charge neutrality in no way denotes a lack of electromagnetic fields, even at considerable distances.
You would be surprised what can happen. Two electrons, as paired electrons, can be overlapping in the same orbital. How can this be when they are the same charge? Magnetism.
Doesn't surprise me a bit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_pair
Umm, you do understand that a magnetic field is part of an electromagnetic field, right?
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