Why is magnesium a paramagnetic material?

Answer 1

No

Response:

Actually that is not true as it is listed as one of the Pauli-paramagnetic metals. For a list of paramagnetic metals go here:

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/Hbase/tables/magprop.html

You can find out more about paramagnetism at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramagnetism

Answer 2

Oxygen, O2 is paramagnetic indicating 2 unpaired electrons, howver simple bonding schemes for O2 with its 12 electrons would predict that they would all be paired.

A molecular orbital treatment of O2 shows that there are two degenerate (equal energy) anti-bonding pi orbitals that each holds one electron.

Answer 3

Transition metals and transition metal ions are paramagnetic if they have unpaired electrons.

In bulk samples of spins may be aligned giving rise to ferromagnetism, ferrimagnetism and antiferromagnetism

Note that the d orbitals interact with the ligands and are not energetically degenerate. So ions with even numbers of electrons may be paramagnetic such as Fe2+ in many of its salts.

Answer 4

oxygen is paramagnetic in nature because it has unpaired electron in

anti bonding orbital

Answer 5

yess

Answer 6

The phenomenon of paramagnetism is exibited by molecules having unpaired electron.O2 molecule has unpaired electrons,therefore O2 is paramagnetic