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Offline Bboy

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Electron Configurations
« on: September 10, 2007, 08:56:14 PM »
can someone help and tell me what's wrong.



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Re: Electron Configurations
« Reply #1 on: September 10, 2007, 09:16:02 PM »
Can you write out what you think the valence shell electron configuration is for copper?

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Re: Electron Configurations
« Reply #2 on: September 10, 2007, 09:27:41 PM »
oo One of the exception.. so s=7 and d=10

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Re: Electron Configurations
« Reply #3 on: September 10, 2007, 09:30:39 PM »


um for the middle problem, there is no energy arrow for 3s, so how can I find out its configuration?

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Re: Electron Configurations
« Reply #4 on: September 10, 2007, 09:38:59 PM »
Well, there are no electrons in the 3p orbital either.  What do you do with that?

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