State True or False.
The outer electronic configuration of the ground state chromium atom is $3 d^{4} 4 s^{2}$ .

True

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False

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Solution

The correct option is B False
The given configuration of $C r : 3 d^{4} 4 s^{2}$ is wrong.
The outer electronic configuration of the ground state chromium atom must be $C r : 3 d^{5} 4 s^{1}$ .

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The ground state electronic configuration of chromium atom is:

(A r) 4 s^{1} 3 d^{5}

(A r) 4 s^{1} 3 d^{5}

(A r) 4 s^{2} 3 d^{4}

3 d^{5} 4 s^{1}

3 d^{4} 4 s^{2}

3 d^{5} 4 s^{1}

3 d^{4} 4 s^{2}