How do you determine the electron configuration for nitrogen?
1 Answer
Jun 23, 2017
Place Nitrogen's 7 electrons into the electron orbitals starting from the lowest energy level and working upwards.
Explanation:
Nitrogen number 7 has seven total electrons.
The first two elections go into the 1 s orbital
the next two electrons go into the 2s orbital
The last three electrons go into the 2p orbitals