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golids

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« on: November 13, 2007, 03:01:22 pm »
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whats a good explanation for why each series has 10 elements
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« Reply #1 on: November 13, 2007, 03:11:03 pm »
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whats a good explanation for why each series has 10 elements


The subsequent filling of the 'd' subshells.

Wouldn't that be all you needed to say?
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« Reply #2 on: November 13, 2007, 03:24:41 pm »
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Transition elements have electrons in the d-orbitals. The d subshell contains 5 orbitals. By pauli's exclusion principle, each orbital holds upto 2 electrons. Therefore, 10 altogether. That is, per shell.
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Re: transition metals
« Reply #3 on: November 13, 2007, 07:50:56 pm »
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Quote from: "golids"
whats a good explanation for why each series has 10 elements


The subsequent filling of the 'd' subshells.

Wouldn't that be all you needed to say?


a vcaa report said due to the systematic filling of the d subshell, thought it was a bit to simple but would that be it, for a 1 mark q
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« Reply #4 on: November 14, 2007, 04:28:51 pm »
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Transition elements have electrons in the d-orbitals. The d subshell contains 5 orbitals. By pauli's exclusion principle, each orbital holds upto 2 electrons. Therefore, 10 altogether. That is, per shell.


wolfgang pauli , what a mad name  :P
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