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Q.Which of the following is the ground state electronic configuration of Cr? (Atomic number of Cr is 24)
(a) 1s²2s²2p⁶3s²3p⁶3d⁴4s²
(b) 1s²2s²2p⁶3s²3p⁶3d⁵4s¹
(c) 1s²2s²2p⁶3s²3p⁶3d⁶
(d) 1s²2s²2p⁶3s²3p⁶3d³4s²4p¹
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Start your 14-day free trial to unlock the full solution →Chromium (Z = 24) does not follow the simple Aufbau filling; it adopts instead of because a half-filled subshell is extra stable.
For Z = 24, the naive Aufbau order predicts (option a). However, chromium is one of the classic exceptions taught with the d-block elements: a configuration with a half-filled and a half-filled is lower in energy than .
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