The atomic number of potassium is 19. This means that potassium atoms have 19 protons in their nuclei. Neutral potassium atoms will also have 19 electrons. So then you follow the rules for the orbital filling pattern for the atoms of the elements, until you get to 19 electrons, and you get the following:
1s22s22p63s23p64s1.
Potassium must lose one electron (to have the same configuration as the noble gas argon), and fluorine must gain one electron (to have the same configuration as neon)
The electron configuration for a ground-state potassium atom is 1s22s22p63s23p64s1. The noble gas shorthand configuration is [Ar]4s1.
There is only one valance electron in potassium.
Selenium: [Ar] 3d10 4s2 4p4 or 2, 8, 18, 6 Phosphorus: [Ar] 3d10 4s2 4p3 or 2, 8, 18, 5
abbreviated electron configuration = e.c.
The shell configuration of potassium is 2,8,8,1.
No - but the potassium ion does
19K+=1s2,2s2,2p6,3s2,3p6,3d1
Ar is Argon and Ar 4s1 is the short form of the electron configuration 1s2 2s2 2s6 3s2 3s6 4s1. It means add 4s1 to the electron configuration of Argon to get the electron configuration of potassium.
Potassium must lose one electron (to have the same configuration as the noble gas argon), and fluorine must gain one electron (to have the same configuration as neon)
The electron configuration for a ground-state potassium atom is 1s22s22p63s23p64s1. The noble gas shorthand configuration is [Ar]4s1.
The electron configuration of 1s22s22p3s1 is not the ground state electron configuration of any element. This configuration contains 8 electrons, which in the ground state would be oxygen. The ground state configuration of oxygen is 1s22s22p4.
There is only one valance electron in potassium.
Potassium.
argon atom
The element with that electron configuration is Iron.
2.8.8