Assertion and reason: filling orbitals
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- Questions
- Reason
- Pauli forbids two electrons in an atom sharing all four quantum numbers.
- Verdict
- Both are true; the reason explains the assertion.
- Assertion
- An orbital holds at most two electrons.
- Reason
- Hund's rule of maximum multiplicity requires single occupancy first.
- Verdict
- Both are true; the reason explains the assertion.
- Assertion
- Electrons spread out before pairing up in a subshell.
- Reason
- Rutherford discovered the nucleus by alpha-particle scattering.
- Verdict
- Both are true; the reason does not explain the assertion.
- Assertion
- Orbitals fill in order of increasing energy.
The last round pairs two true halves that do not explain one another. Source: syllabus Chemistry Part I, Ch 2 Structure of Atom.