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On 11/08/2017 02:09 AM, wrote:<br>
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<p>Another question lol...</p>
<p>Can you explain configurations in relations to excited and
ground states? I know how to do the configurations but don't
understand how to recognize from a configuration which ones
are in excited or ground states. </p>
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Please look at page 264 of your text a the lithium atom
configuration. If I moved one of the electrons from the 1s orbital
to the 2s orbital that would be an excited state.<br>
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