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A new Lewis-Langmuir equation for the calculation of atomic charges is presented. This equation retains all the virtues of those derived by other workers while overcoming the only conceptual defect of previously derived equations. It yields atomic charges that are intuitively more acceptable and give improved correlation with the results of ab initio methods.