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Ground State Electron Configurations - University of Guelph

Ground State Electron Configurations • The actual wavefunction of a multi-electron atom is very complicated. • In the orbital approximation, we suppose that a reasonable first approximation to this exact wavefunction is obtained by thinking of each electron as occupying its “own” orbital.

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