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The amount of energy required to remove the electron from a Li2+ ion in its ground state is how many times greater than the amount of energy required to remove the electron from an Hatom in its ground state?

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Solution

The energy of transition is given by,

E=13.6Z2(1n2t1n2i)

Both n values for transition in the question are same

The ratio of the energies determined only by the ratio of the Z2 or 12/32 or 1/9.

Thus, the energy required to remove an e from Li2+ is 9 times more than Hydrogen.

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