Why F2 is dia magnetic ?

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anor277
Jun 8, 2018

Well the fluorine ATOM, #Z=9#, necessarily has 9 electrons. Why #"necessarily"#?

Explanation:

And in the fluorine molecule, the valence orbitals PAIR up to fill the electronic orbitals of a diatom...

sig.us

There is ONE NET bonding orbital … depicted in the diagram as #sigma_(2pz)#...in any case, all the BONDING and ANTIBONDING orbitals are FILLED....there are no lone electrons, and thus no question of paramagnetism...

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