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Maximum unpaired electrons in an atom

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Start date Sep 13, 2012
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xiphoid

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Sep 13, 2012

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Homework Statement

If there are 13 electrons in M shell and one electron in N shell, the the number of unpaired electrons in such atom will be

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M- shell N- shell

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The configuration should be
3s2 3p6 3d5 4s1
hence the answer should be 6

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AGNuke

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Sep 14, 2012

#2

Yup, that's the configuration of Chromium.

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