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Grade 11Physical Chemistry

Give reasons why the ground state outermost electronic configuration of silicon is:

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12 Years agoGrade 11
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Ground state electronic configuration of Si|
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Is in accordance with Hund’s rule which states that electron pairing in any orbital (s, p, d or f) cannot take place until each orbital of the same sub-level contain 1 electron each of like spin.