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Chapter 6: Q63E (page 337)
Question:Thallium was used as a poison in the Agatha Christie mystery story “The Pale Horse.” Thallium has twopossible cationic forms, +1 and +3. The +1 compounds are the more stable. Write the electron structure of the +1cation of thallium.
Tl1+= 1s22s22p63s23p64s23d104p65s24d105p66s25d10
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Based on their positions in the periodic table, list the following ions in order of increasing radius:\({{\bf{K}}^ + },{\rm{ }}{\bf{C}}{{\bf{a}}^{{\bf{2}} + }},{\rm{ }}{\bf{A}}{{\bf{l}}^{{\bf{3}} + }},{\rm{ }}{\bf{S}}{{\bf{i}}^{{\bf{4}} + }}.\)
Question:In one area of Australia, the cattle did not thrive despite the presence of suitable forage. An investigationshowed the cause to be the absence of sufficient cobalt in the soil. Cobalt forms cations in two oxidation states, Co2+and Co3+. Write the electron structure of the two cations.
Which of the subshells described in the previous question contain degenerate orbitals? How many degenerate
orbitals are in each?
What is the energy in joules and the wavelength in meters of the photon produced when an electron falls from then= 5 to then= 3 level in a\({\bf{H}}{{\bf{e}}^ + }\)ion (\(Z = {\rm{ }}{\bf{2}}\)for\({\bf{H}}{{\bf{e}}^{\bf{ + }}}\))?
Calculate the wavelength of a softball with a mass of 100 g traveling at a velocity of 35 m s–1, assuming that it can be modeled as a single particle.
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