What element contains five electrons in it's 3d orbitals

Chromium and Manganese are the elements that contain five electrons in its 3d Orbitals.

Electron configurations of the elements Chromium and Manganese via kwout

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The electron configuration of an atom shows the number of electrons in each sublevel in each energy level of the ground-state atom. To determine the electron configuration of a particular atom, start at the nucleus and add electrons one by one until the number of electrons equals the number of protons in the nucleus.

Each added electron is assigned to the lowest-energy sublevel available. The first sublevel filled will be the 1s sublevel, then the 2s sublevel, the 2p sublevel, the 3s, 3p, 4s, 3d, and so on.

The periodic table is divided into s, p, d and f blocks. The s, p, d and f subshells have a maximum number of electrons associated to them, as shown in the table:

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Friday, November 13 2015