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Grade 11Physical Chemistry

Pls explain Degenerate orbitals with a example briefly?

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7 Years agoGrade 11
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ApprovedApproved Tutor Answer7 Years ago
Electron orbitals that have the same energy levels are called degenerate orbitals. When assigning electrons to orbitals in determining electron configurations, the Aufbau principle states that lower energy orbitals are filled before higher energy orbitals.
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Electron orbitals that have the same energy levels are called degenerate orbitals. ... Hund's rule states thatdegenerate orbitals are filled evenly, not unevenly, before moving to higher energy orbitals. For example, p orbitalsconsist of three degenerate orbitalsthat all have exactly the same energy level.