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by selimthegrim 3959 days ago
No the problem for chemistry is that it _doesn't_. You end up getting all these just so stories about electron shielding and d orbitals that have absolutely no basis in reality whatsoever even as an approximation.

And it's safe to say no one really understood magnetism properly before quantum mechanics, qua Feynman.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohr–van_Leeuwen_theorem