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Offline eureka123

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Stablity
« on: August 15, 2009, 05:49:11 AM »
Which of these two is unstable ??
B- or Be-

 ithink it s B- becoz of less than half filled orbitals which cause instablity

any diff answer wit hproper explaination or same answer with any diff proper explaination is welcome...  :) :)

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Re: Stablity
« Reply #1 on: August 15, 2009, 11:42:49 PM »
Have you tried considering their electron affinities?
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Re: Stablity
« Reply #2 on: August 16, 2009, 02:14:28 AM »
nooo
but what effect will EA have on stablity  ??? ???

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Re: Stablity
« Reply #3 on: August 16, 2009, 03:15:52 AM »
You can always say that one is more stable than the other if it releases a greater amount of energy. i.e, by doing so, the PE of the system is reduced more, making it more stable...

Please correct me if i am wrong
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Re: Stablity
« Reply #4 on: August 19, 2009, 01:59:24 PM »
i still didnt get the answer  :( :(

can anyone atleast confirm whether my answer is rite or not... ???

i will look for explaination then  :)

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Re: Stablity
« Reply #5 on: August 19, 2009, 04:40:01 PM »
You can always say that one is more stable than the other if it releases a greater amount of energy. i.e, by doing so, the PE of the system is reduced more, making it more stable...

Please correct me if i am wrong

I think you're true, and considering that we only need a rough evaluation of stability we only have to know the periodic trend of this value: in this case, moving across a period from left to right, Ea increases so we can say that B- is more stable than Be-.
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