AW2020 Posted October 15, 2020 Posted October 15, 2020 I am currently working on noble gas configurations in chemistry and I am having a hard time understanding why I got two questions wrong on a practice. The instructions for the practice are here: Write out the noble gas configuration for the element. Enter your answer with all values without any spaces, hyper scripts or subscripts Example: S- (These are meant to be in exponential format) [Ne]3s23p4 --> [Ne]3s23p4 My questions are: Write the noble gas configuration for Zr: Write the noble gas configuration for Ho: My answers were: [Kr]5s24p64d2 [Xe]6s25p64f11 I am still getting the answers wrong. Where did I go wrong in my configurations?
chenbeier Posted October 16, 2020 Posted October 16, 2020 You wrote to much p- Electrons. Look up the total configuration of Krypton and Xenon.
Mad as a hatter Posted January 2, 2023 Posted January 2, 2023 predicted electron configurations for transition elements and the lanthanide and actanides are often wrong, zirconium is 1s2, 2s2, 2p6, 3s2, 3p6, 4s2, 3d10, 4p6, 5s2 or [Kr] 4s2, 3d10, 4p6, 5s2 and holmium is 1s2, 2s2, 2p6, 3s2, 3p6, 4s2, 3d10, 4p6, 4d10, 5s2, 5p6, 4f11, 6s2 or [Xe] 4f11 6s2
chenbeier Posted January 2, 2023 Posted January 2, 2023 (edited) Dont post answers for 3 year old threads, probably the people not more alive. Edited January 2, 2023 by chenbeier
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