The Statement That "The Lowest Energy Configuration for an Atom

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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)Heisenberg uncertainty principle
• D)the Pauli exclusion principle
• E)the quantum model

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