Chapter 5 Flashcards
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Ground State
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Lowest potential energy arrangement of electrons in an atom
2
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Aufbau principle
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Flipping up - predicts the ground state configuration
3
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Hund’s rule
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How electrons are distributed among orbitals of the same sub-level when there is more than one way to distribute them
3
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Pauli exclusion principle
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The restriction on the placement of electrons into the same orbital
4
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Excited state electron configuration
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Higher total electron potential energy than the ground state electron configuration
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