How many unpaired electrons in a ground state fluorine atom?

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Answer 1 · 2016-07-21T14:06:48

Fluorine has one unpaired electron in the ground state.

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Fluorine is in the $2nd$ Energy Level (row) of the Periodic Table and in the $5th$ column of the $p$ block making the electron configuration $1s^2 2s^2 2p^5$

The outermost shell of the atom would have $7$ electrons.

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The Bohr Model would have $2$ electrons in the fist orbital and $7$ electrons in the second orbit level.

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