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Grade 12th passPhysical Chemistry

Total num ber of vacant orbitals in valence shell of Br when it forms maximum covalent bond

Profile image of Harshit Singh
5 Years agoGrade 12th pass
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Profile image of Pawan Prajapati
5 Years ago
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The element Br has 4s24p5 outer most electronic configuration .
And in the same shell there are 4d and 4f subshells are vacant.
In order to forms maximum covalent bonds 3 more vacant orbitals will be used in addition to previous 4 orbitals , Now the number of remaining vacant orbitals are 9 in number.

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