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When one electron is added to an oxygen molecule, a superoxide ion
(a) Construct the correlation diagram for
(b) Give the valence electron configuration for each of the following species:
(c) Give the bond order of each species.
(d) Predict which species are paramagnetic.
(e) Predict the order of increasing
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