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Interpretation:
The complex that absorbs longer wavelength has to be given.
Concept Introduction:
Spectrochemical series:
Spectrochemical series is a list of ligands in the order of ligand strength and a list of metal ion based on oxidation number. In crystal field theory, ligands modify the difference in energy between the d orbitals
Series of ligands from weak field to strong field is,
Relation between energy and the wavelength:
The energy of a wave is directly proportional to its frequency, but inversely proportional to its wavelength. In other words greater the energy larger the frequency and the shorter the wavelength.
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