Questions tagged [spin]
Spin is a type of angular momentum which is intrinsic to atomic and sub-atomic particles. Electrons in orbitals can be either spin paired or spin unpaired which influences the magnetic properties of the species containing these orbitals.
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What is the physical basis for Hund's first rule?
According to Hund's first rule, a set of degenerate orbitals are singly occupied first, before the second slot in any of the orbitals are populated. This is quite intuitive because electron-electron ...
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Is the order of orientation of electron box diagrams meaningful or arbitrary?
Here is my interpretation when asked to:
By drawing arrows in the appropriate boxes, complete the outer electron structures for Cu and Cu2+
I had no problem in drawing out the electron structure, ...
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Do electrons only fill 'spin up' first? Or could it start filling 'down spins' first? [duplicate]
Due to Hund's rule, electrons start filling up the orbitals without pairing up. When this is happening, do the electrons all fill up the 'up' spin? Could they fill in the 'down' spin? Why do they ...
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Why do spin isomers of hydrogen (ortho and para hydrogen) change their nuclear spin with temperature variance?
My book says that ordinary dihydrogen contains 75% ortho and 25% para forms of hydrogen, while at significantly lower temperatures (like 20K) ortho and para hydrogens are 0.18% and 99.82% respectively....
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Is [Co(NH₃)₄Cl₂]Cl paramagnetic or diamagnetic?
$\ce{NH3}$ is known to be a strong field ligand, while $\ce{Cl}$ is known to be a weak field ligand.
Is $\ce{[Co(NH3)4Cl2]Cl}$ a high spin complex or a low spin complex?
I assumed this to be a high ...
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Do Electrons Really 'Spin'?
With regard to the 'Electron Spin Number', lots of websites mention that electrons don't really spin and that the electron spin number has nothing to do with any physical spinning.
However, my ...
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Effect of magnetization on oxidation (rusting) of iron
Can magenetizing a piece of iron bar slow-down (or speed-up) the oxidation (rusting) process? In other words have any influence on it ?
From what I've looked up( wikipedia, quora), it appears that the ...
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Spin spin coupling in a proton NMR of an ester?
I am learning about proton NMR and spin-spin coupling, and am confused about whether splitting occurs over an ester bond. Specifically, in the case of ethyl methanoate, HCOOCH2CH3, if I were to number ...
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What is antisymmetric exchange? What is J-strain? Where does it come from?
I'm reading a paper1 by Sanakis, et al. that characterises the magnetic coupling in the $\ce{Fe3S4}$ clusters present in bacterial ferredoxin II and beef heart aconitase as arising through something ...
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What happens when para-water ice is suddenly melted?
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In the case of recently liquified hydrogen (which is quite cold of course) it must be re-equilibrated before loading on to a rocket as fuel to avoid a sudden exothermic ...
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How to derive Pauli Exclusion Principle without assuming anti-symmetry?
So, it appears that the statement of the Pauli Exclusion Principle is equivalent to the statement that fermions are anti-symmetric. That is, if you assume that fermions are anti-symmetric, then you ...
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What does an electron's spin of 0.5 and minus 0.5 signify?
While teaching me magnetism, my teacher told me about the spin of an electron. He told me that the spin of .5 means that if we rotate the electron twice counter-clockwise on its axis, we would have ...
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Difference between spin-orbit coupling and the Russell-Saunders Effect?
The Russell-Saunders effect is the same thing as 'spin-orbit interaction, correct?
The reason I am asking is because I was reviewing the Wikipedia page on 'spin-orbit interaction' and it does not ...
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What accounts for the high spin state of the complex Tris(acetylacetonato)iron(III)?
I understand that there's 5 d-electrons for $\ce{Fe^3+}$ ion, but why it doesn't fill up the lower energy orbitals first to form one unpaired electron, but rather, filling up all the orbitals to form ...
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Rotational Constant for CO2 from an IR Vibrational-Rotational spectra
I have been trying to calculate the rotational constants ($B$) for $\ce{CO}$ and $\ce{CO2}$ from IR Vibrational-Rotational spectra.
I know that for $\ce{CO}$ the peak spacing is approximately $2B$ (...
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Distinguish between two possible configurations for angular momentum in carbon atom
Consider the possible values of $S$ and $L$ for carbon configuration $1s^2 2s^2 2p^2$ and the corresponding rapresentations with arrows indicating the spins (consider only $S=0,L=0$ and $S=0,L=2$, as ...
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1H-NMR: What parameters influence spin-spin coupling between protons, and why?
I'd like to better understand spin-spin coupling. What other mechanisms are there besides fermi contact interactions? How are the different mechanisms influenced by different parameters like ...
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