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Plutonium (Z = 94) has the ground-state configuration . The number of unpaired electrons in is

  1. A4
  2. B2
  3. C5
  4. D6

Answer: A

Removing the two electrons and two electrons gives with . Four electrons occupy four separate orbitals with parallel spins, so there are 4 unpaired electrons.
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