{"id":185777,"date":"2025-01-23T06:50:24","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T06:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/?p=185777"},"modified":"2025-01-23T06:50:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T06:50:26","slug":"an-atomic-cation-with-a-charge-of-1-has-the-following-electron-configuration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/23\/an-atomic-cation-with-a-charge-of-1-has-the-following-electron-configuration\/","title":{"rendered":"An atomic cation with a charge of +1 has the following electron configuration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An atomic cation with a charge of +1 has the following electron configuration: [Kr]5s24d105p2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>what is the chemical symbol for the ion?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How many electrons does the ion have?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How many 5s electrons are in the ion?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-ast-global-color-6-color\"><strong>The Correct Answer and Explanation is :<\/strong><\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Chemical Symbol for the Ion:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The electron configuration given is: ([Kr] 5s^2 4d^{10} 5p^2).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The symbol ([Kr]) represents the electron configuration of krypton, a noble gas with the atomic number 36.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The remaining configuration after ([Kr]) corresponds to elements in the 5th period of the periodic table.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The last part of the configuration, (5s^2 4d^{10} 5p^2), corresponds to the element <strong>Germanium (Ge)<\/strong>, which is in period 5, group 14 of the periodic table, with an atomic number of 32.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the ion is a cation with a charge of +1, it means the atom has lost one electron. The neutral germanium atom would have 32 electrons, but as a (+1) cation, it has one fewer electron.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus, the chemical symbol for the ion is <strong>Ge(^+)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Number of Electrons in the Ion:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A neutral germanium atom (Ge) has an atomic number of 32, meaning it has 32 electrons. Since the ion has a +1 charge, one electron has been removed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, the number of electrons in the ion is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[<br>32 &#8211; 1 = 31 \\text{ electrons}<br>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Number of 5s Electrons in the Ion:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The electron configuration of the neutral germanium atom is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[<br>[Kr] 5s^2 4d^{10} 5p^2<br>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This indicates that there are 2 electrons in the (5s) orbital. Since the ion has a (+1) charge, this means that one electron has been removed from the atom, but the electron configuration does not explicitly tell us which orbital the electron was removed from. Generally, when forming a cation, electrons are first removed from the outermost orbitals, which, in this case, would be the (5p) orbital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, the number of (5s) electrons in the ion remains <strong>2<\/strong>, since the (5s) electrons are more tightly bound compared to the (5p) electrons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Conclusion:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Chemical symbol for the ion<\/strong>: Ge(^+)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Number of electrons<\/strong>: 31<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Number of 5s electrons<\/strong>: 2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An atomic cation with a charge of +1 has the following electron configuration: [Kr]5s24d105p2 what is the chemical symbol for the ion? How many electrons does the ion have? How many 5s electrons are in the ion? The Correct Answer and Explanation is : Chemical Symbol for the Ion: The electron configuration given is: ([Kr] [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams-certification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}