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Grade 12Inorganic Chemistry

hydrogen ion has no orbital while hydrogen has????????

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5 Years agoGrade 12
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Profile image of Pawan Prajapati
5 Years ago
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This can be understood by writing the electronic configurations of hydrogen atom and hydrogen ion.
The hydrogen ion has an electronic configuration 1s1. So, it has one atomic orbital. On the other hand the electronic configuration of hydrogen ion is 1s0. As it does not have any electron, so there is no orbital.
One thing which you must note here is that normally hydrogen atom shares electrons to attain the stable duplet configuration.

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