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Q: What is potassium electron configuration in long and short form?
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Why is potassium electron configuration 1s2 2s2 2p6 3s2 3p6 4s1 or Ar 4s1?

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.


What is the short form electron configuration of the halogen in period 6?

1s2s2p3s3p4s4p5s5p6s6p


What is the short form electron configuration for fluorine?

1s2 2s2 2p5


What is the electron configuration of radium?

The element radium (atomic number 88) has the long term electron configuration 1s2 2s2 2p6 3s2 3p6 3d10 4s2 4p6 5s2 4d10 5p64f14 5d10 6s2 6p6 7s2 The electron configuration (short form) of radium is [Rn]7s2. It's configuration is also 2.8.18.32.18.8.2


Why do the elements sodium and potassium form ions with the same charge?

Because each of them can form a cation with the electron configuration of a noble gas by donating one electron to another element.


What happens when potassium achieves a noble gas state?

Potassium loses one electron to form K+ ion that has the noble gas configuration of the element neon.


What is the shorthand notation of fermium?

The electron configuration (short form) of fermium is: [Rn]5f127s2.


Does (k) lose electrons to form cations?

Yes it does. Potassium has one valence electron. It loses this electron to from the cation, K+, thereby attaining stable noble gas configuration.


What is the long electron configuration for radium?

The short form electron configuration of radium is: [Rn]7s2.


What is the long form of the electron configuration of einsteinium?

The electronic configuration of einsteinium is: [Rn]5f11.7s2.


Electron configuration for argon?

The electron configuration, in standard form, is [Ne] 3s2 3p6


Why does a potassium atom always lose its one valence electron what type of bond will it form with a chlorine atom?

A potassium atom "always" loses exactly one valence electron when it reacts with another element, because one valence electron in a potassium atom has a much lower ionization energy requirement than any other electron in the same atom. (This property is generally ascribed to the fact that when a potassium loses exactly one electron, it acquires the very stable electron configuration of the noble gas argon.) A chlorine atom has a very strong attraction (its electronegativity) for exactly one electron, which gives the charged atom the electron configuration of an argon atom. Therefore, when a potassium atom is close enough to a chlorine atom, one electron is transferred between to form an ionic bond and a formula unit of the compound potassium chloride.