Chemistry, 11.01.2020 20:31 phancharamachasm

Which isolated gaseous atom has a total of five electrons occupying spherically shaped orbitals?
a)sodium b) potassium c) boron d) flourine

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Let's find the electron configuration of each atom

Atom atomic number electron configuration

Bo 5 1s2 2s2 2p
F 9 1s2 2s2 2p5
Na 11 1s2 s2 2p6 3s
K 19 1s2 2s2 2p6 3s2 3p6 4s

The spherically shaped orbitals are the s orbitals.

You can se in the table that I wrote above that sodium has 2 electrons at 1s, 2 electrons at 2s and 1 electron at 3s orbitals, that is a total of five electrons at s (spherically shaped orbtials).

So the answer is the option A) sodium.

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explanation:

metals have excess of electrons whereas non-metals have deficiency of electrons. thus, in order to gain stability metals easily donate their electrons to the non-metals.

for example, electronic configuration of sodium is $1s^{2}2s^{2}2p^{6}3s^{1}$ and electronic configuration of phosphorous is $1s^{2}2s^{2}2p^{6}3s^{2}3p^{3}$ .

when a phosphorous atom and sodium atom combine together then sodium will donate is extra one electron to the phosphorous atom. as a result there will be formation of ionic bond between sodium and phosphorous.

the reaction will be as follows.

$3na + p \rightarrow na_{3}p$

there, are three sodium sodium atoms and each of them will donate its one extra electron to phosphorous atom. thus, the sub-shell of phosphorous gets completely filled.

thus, we can conclude that electrons are transferred from atoms of sodium to atoms of phosphorous. this transfer makes the sodium atoms donate one electron and the phosphorous atoms to gain one electron. as a result, the sodium and phosphorus atoms strongly attract each other.

Electrons are transferred from atoms of to atoms of this transfer makes the sodium atoms and the

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the answer is a and have a great day

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