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Subject: Do phosphorus and sulfur have d orbital electrons?

Date: Thu Apr 19 21:13:04 2001
Posted by Arthur
Grade level: teacher/prof School: Osseo Public Schools
City: Maple Grove State/Province: MN Country: USA
Area of science: Chemistry
ID: 987729184.Ch
Message:

The teachers manual for Addison-Wesley's Chemistry on page428 states that P and 
S have d orbital electrons.  Also, it says that NO3-,OH-, and SO3are 
diamagnetic while H20 is paramagnetic. Would not NO3- have a single unpaired 
electron?  Would not OH- also have just one unpaired electron? I can see that 
SO3 would not have a single unpaired electron.  I would agree that H2O does not 
have a single unpaired electron.


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