
Chemistry, Books a la Carte Edition and Modified Mastering Chemistry with Pearson eText & ValuePack Access Card (7th Edition)
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Chapter 5, Problem 5.20P
PROBLEM 5.20 When electricity is used to add energy to the mercury atoms, an electron in a 6s orbital can be “excited” into a 6p orbital.
(a) Write the electron configuration for a mercury atom in the excited state.
(b) Sketch the orbital filling diagram for the excited state of mercury.
(c) How many unpaired electrons are there in the excited state of mercury?
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Question 4
Determine the rate order and rate constant for sucrose hydrolysis.
Time (hours)
[C6H12O6]
0
0.501
0.500
0.451
1.00
0.404
1.50
0.363
3.00
0.267
First-order, k = 0.210 hour 1
First-order, k = 0.0912 hour 1
O Second-order, k =
0.590 M1 hour 1
O Zero-order, k = 0.0770 M/hour
O Zero-order, k = 0.4896 M/hour
O Second-order, k = 1.93 M-1-hour 1
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Chemistry, Books a la Carte Edition and Modified Mastering Chemistry with Pearson eText & ValuePack Access Card (7th Edition)
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