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6 March, 14:19

In the molecule ClF5, chlorine makes five covalent bonds. Therefore, five of its seven valence electrons need to be unpaired. The orbitals with the same energy are known as degenerate orbitals. For example, the p subshell has three degenerate orbital, namely, px, py, and pz. How many degenerate orbitals are needed to contain seven electrons with five of them unpaired

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