{"id":203626,"date":"2025-03-20T10:54:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T10:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/?p=203626"},"modified":"2025-03-20T10:54:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T10:54:43","slug":"give-the-electron-configuration-for-a-neutral-atom-of-manganese-mn-using-an-orbital-diagram-the-kind-with-lines-or-boxes-for-orbitals-and-arrows-to-show-the-electrons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/20\/give-the-electron-configuration-for-a-neutral-atom-of-manganese-mn-using-an-orbital-diagram-the-kind-with-lines-or-boxes-for-orbitals-and-arrows-to-show-the-electrons\/","title":{"rendered":"Give the electron configuration for a neutral atom of manganese (Mn) using an orbital diagram (the kind with lines or boxes for orbitals and arrows to show the electrons)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Give the electron configuration for a neutral atom of manganese (Mn) using an orbital diagram (the kind with lines or boxes for orbitals and arrows to show the electrons).<\/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\">Electron Configuration of a Neutral Manganese (Mn) Atom:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The atomic number of manganese (Mn) is <strong>25<\/strong>, meaning it has <strong>25 electrons<\/strong> in a neutral atom. The electron configuration is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1s\u00b2 2s\u00b2 2p\u2076 3s\u00b2 3p\u2076 4s\u00b2 3d\u2075<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Orbital Diagram Representation:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>1s  \u2191\u2193  \n2s  \u2191\u2193  \n2p  \u2191\u2193  \u2191\u2193  \u2191\u2193  \n3s  \u2191\u2193  \n3p  \u2191\u2193  \u2191\u2193  \u2191\u2193  \n4s  \u2191\u2193  \n3d  \u2191   \u2191   \u2191   \u2191   \u2191  <\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Explanation:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Aufbau Principle<\/strong>: Electrons fill orbitals starting from the lowest energy level to the highest.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Pauli Exclusion Principle<\/strong>: Each orbital can hold a maximum of <strong>two electrons<\/strong> with opposite spins.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Hund&#8217;s Rule<\/strong>: When filling degenerate orbitals (orbitals of the same energy level), electrons fill singly first before pairing up.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>1s (2 electrons)<\/strong>: The first energy level contains one orbital (1s), which holds two electrons.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2s (2 electrons)<\/strong>: The second energy level starts with the 2s orbital, which also holds two electrons.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2p (6 electrons)<\/strong>: The 2p orbitals (three orbitals) can hold six electrons in total.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>3s (2 electrons)<\/strong>: The third energy level starts with the 3s orbital, holding two electrons.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>3p (6 electrons)<\/strong>: The three 3p orbitals hold six electrons.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>4s (2 electrons)<\/strong>: The 4s orbital is filled before the 3d orbitals because it is lower in energy.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>3d (5 electrons)<\/strong>: The five 3d orbitals are filled according to Hund\u2019s Rule, meaning each gets one electron before any pairing occurs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This configuration shows why manganese has a half-filled <strong>3d\u2075<\/strong> subshell, making it relatively stable due to exchange energy and symmetry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Give the electron configuration for a neutral atom of manganese (Mn) using an orbital diagram (the kind with lines or boxes for orbitals and arrows to show the electrons). The correct answer and explanation is : Electron Configuration of a Neutral Manganese (Mn) Atom: The atomic number of manganese (Mn) is 25, meaning it has [&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-203626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams-certification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203626","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=203626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}