Ground state vs. excited state
Moderators: Chem_Mod, Chem_Admin
-
- Posts: 60
- Joined: Fri Sep 28, 2018 12:16 am
Ground state vs. excited state
What does it mean for an electron configuration to represent a ground or excited state of an atom? Is it talking about the same/opposite spin?
-
- Posts: 77
- Joined: Fri Sep 28, 2018 12:28 am
- Been upvoted: 1 time
Re: Ground state vs. excited state
when an electron is said to be in its excited state it has been "energized" and gone up to a particular shell, higher than the one it was originally at. Something that is in its ground state then it has either gone back down from being excited or there wasn't any source of energy and this is just naturally where the electron lies.
-
- Posts: 29
- Joined: Fri Sep 28, 2018 12:17 am
Re: Ground state vs. excited state
You can usually determine whether an electronic configuration represents an excited state if the diagram depicts an electron that is not in its appropriate orbital or if it has an irregular spin.
-
- Posts: 61
- Joined: Fri Sep 28, 2018 12:16 am
-
- Posts: 60
- Joined: Fri Sep 28, 2018 12:15 am
Re: Ground state vs. excited state
Cations are positively charged ions; they are generally smaller than their parent atoms. On the other hand, anions are negatively charged ions; they are generally larger than their parent atoms.
-
- Posts: 29
- Joined: Fri Oct 05, 2018 12:16 am
Re: Ground state vs. excited state
Excited state atoms absorb energy and are promoted to higher energy levels, making them unstable. This means they experience an increase in the electron shell they occupy. Ground state electrons are just electrons that have not been excited.
Return to “Wave Functions and s-, p-, d-, f- Orbitals”
Who is online
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 7 guests