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Hydrated copper(II) ion, , in aqueous solution is:

  1. Acolourless and diamagnetic
  2. Bblue and diamagnetic
  3. Cblue and paramagnetic
  4. Dcolourless and paramagnetic

Answer: C

is . It has one unpaired electron, so it is paramagnetic, and a d-d transition makes it blue.
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