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Electron Configuration Question
« on: April 17, 2015, 02:20:32 PM »
Could anyone tell me how to make the electron configuration using this method (please see image below)?



Please show me an example, where the element is Ca, 20 electrons.
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Re: Electron Configuration Question
« Reply #1 on: April 17, 2015, 03:08:44 PM »
I don't see a "method" in your image, just a symbol that looks like an orbital with two electrons of opposite spins, identical with one of our symbols:  :spinpaired:

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Re: Electron Configuration Question
« Reply #2 on: April 22, 2015, 11:31:08 AM »
I don't see a "method" in your image, just a symbol that looks like an orbital with two electrons of opposite spins, identical with one of our symbols:  :spinpaired:

It's weird if an administrator like you don't understand what I'm asking about.  ???

It's called a Hund's rule.

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Re: Electron Configuration Question
« Reply #3 on: April 22, 2015, 02:58:39 PM »
Rule is a rule, it is not a method.

The symbol you used - while can be used in the context of the Hund's rule - is not its equivalent.

I can only guess you are asking for an application of the Hund's rule to determine the electron configuration of the calcium metal. However, Hund's rule is not applicable here.
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Re: Electron Configuration Question
« Reply #4 on: April 22, 2015, 07:47:40 PM »
I think he's just asking how to do orbital notation.
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