Electron Configurations
What is the electron configuration for Li?
What is 1s^2 2s^1
The four letters that represent the possible subshells of an energy shell
What are s, p, d, f
The short-hand electron configuration of Cl
What is [Ne] 3s^2 3p^5
This NFL team plays a home game on Thanksgiving Day every year since 1934 (except during WWII)
Who are the Detroit Lions?
In order to fill the 3d orbital, this orbital must be filled in first
What is the 4s orbital
The number of electrons an s orbital can have
What is 2
The short-hand electron configuration of Ca
What is [Ar] 4s^2
This song, originally entitled "One Horse Open Sleigh" was originally written for a Thanksgiving Celebration
What is Jingle Bells?
Out of these four orbitals, this one has the most energy: 1p 2d 3d 4s
What is the 3d orbital
This element has the following electron configuration:
1s^2 2s^2 2p^6 3s^2 3p^6 4s^2 3d^7
What is Cobalt
The number of electrons a p subshell can have
What is 6
The electron dot notation for germanium contains how many electrons
What is 4
DAILY DOUBLE This President declared Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This rule explains that electrons will fill into the orbitals of a subshell singly moving in the same direction until they all contain one electron and then they will pair up
What is Hund's Rule
These are the 4 quantum numbers for the last electron in Sulfur
What is n= 3, l=1, ml = -1, ms = -1/2
The number of orbitals a d subshell can have
What is 5
This group of elements is used to abbreviate configurations for electrons due to their full _____________ or full s and p subshells
What is octet
Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving is the busiest shopping day, and thus busiest day for retailers, of the year . It is also the busiest work day of the year for this profession
Who are plumbers (They have dubbed it "Brown Friday")?
This rule states that only two electrons can occupy a single orbital and they spin in opposite directions
What is the Pauli exclusion principle?
This is the number of valence electrons in Arsenic
What is 5?
The number of orbitals energy shell 3 has
What is 9 (3s=1, 3p=3, 3d=5)
This is illustrated when an orbital diagram has an electron(s) in an energy shell far above where Aufbau Principle and Hund's Rule would place it the
What is excited electrons
This character has made the most balloon appearances in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
This rule states that electrons fill orbitals that have the lowest energy first
What is the Aufbau principle?