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Grade 9Inorganic Chemistry

THE NO OF UNPAIRED ELECTRONS IN [Fe (H2O)5 NO ]IS

Profile image of vikas pandey
14 Years agoGrade 9
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Profile image of Aditi Bhatnagar
14 Years ago

Hi Vikas

No charge is there on the complex, so electronic configuration of Fe will be 3d64s2 when ligands attack these get paired and since inner d-orbitals are not used 2 electrons are left unpaired.

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