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On the question: 'What does "spend more time" mean here?', from a theoretical vantage, why explore approximations that are based on the time-independent Schrödinger equation?
Perhaps instead, this could be viewed as an application of the nonrelativistic version of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation for the wave function in position space of a single ...
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The reason why the amine lone pair is delocalized is that to make the last conformer you proposed, the nitrogen closest to the oxygen would have to form five bonds. Nitrogen is a second-row element that cannot readily possess 10 electrons from those 5 bonds, even if nitrogen has to possess those 10 electrons for the very short time required for the electrons ...
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Because in the original question there is no elemental chlorine present. It says that you start from a solution of chloride and iodide, so both ions that can be oxidized to the corresponding halogen. And the rest of the answer is already given in your textbook example. Chlorine is a much stronger oxidizing agent. This means that it oxidizes others very well. ...
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I think the point that you're missing is that $\ce{Fe2O3}$ is never formed when there is $\ce{Zn}$ in the system. When the metal gets oxidized, the electrons come from the $\ce{Zn}$, not from the $\ce{Fe}$. This is true even if the physical location of the oxidation is on the iron, since the $\ce{Fe}$ and $\ce{Zn}$ are connected and conductive, so all of the ...
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