Which electrons get removed to form Ar+ and Ar2+?
1 Answer
May 26, 2016
Argon (
Any electron removed during an ionization is from the orbital that is currently highest in energy.
You can see in Appendix B.9 here that the energy of the
So, the
Ar+ :1s22s22p63s23p5
Ar2+ :1s22s22p63s23p4
As a general observation, the energies for orbitals of the same principal quantum number
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