How many unpaired electrons in a ground state fluorine atom?

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Answer 1 · 2016-07-21T14:06:48

Fluorine has one unpaired electron in the ground state.

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Fluorine is in the #2nd# Energy Level (row) of the Periodic Table and in the #5th# column of the #p# block making the electron configuration #1s^2 2s^2 2p^5#

The outermost shell of the atom would have #7# electrons.

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The Bohr Model would have #2# electrons in the fist orbital and #7# electrons in the second orbit level.

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