The Statement That "The Lowest-Energy Configuration for an Atom Is

question 14

Multiple Choice

The statement that "the lowest-energy configuration for an atom is the one having the maximum number of unpaired electrons allowed by the Pauli principle in a particular set of degenerate orbitals" is known as

• A)the aufbau principle.
• B)Hund's rule.
• C)the Pauli exclusion principle.
• D)Heisenberg uncertainty principle.
• E)the quantum model.

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