Hund's Rule States That the Most Stable Arrangement of Electrons $m _ { \ell }$

question 54

Multiple Choice

Hund's rule states that the most stable arrangement of electrons (for a ground state electron configuration)

• A) has a filled valence shell of electrons.
• B) has three electrons per orbital, each with identical spins.
• C) has \(m _ { \ell }\) values greater than or equal to +1.
• D) has the maximum number of unpaired electrons, all with the same spin.
• E) has two electrons per orbital, each with opposing spins.

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