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Process information from secondary sources to use Hund’s rule to predict the electron configuration of an element according to its position in the Periodic Table
- Hund’s rule states that the distribution of electrons in a free atom occur so that as many orbitals as possible are occupied by a single electron (spinning identically) before pairing of electrons with opposite spins occurs
- Three p orbitals
- Five d orbitals
- Seven f orbitlas
- Prediction examples: Seventh nitrogen
- Prediction examples: Eighth Oxygen
- Therefore has opposite spin