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Electron Configuration Practice Worksheet

On a separate piece on paper, write the electron configurations, orbital filling diagrams,
and electron dot structures of the following elements:

1) sodium
2) iron
3) bromine
4) barium
5) thallium
6) cobalt
7) silver
8) tellurium
9) radium
10) astatine
11) lithium
12) oxygen
13) calcium
14) titanium
15) rubidium
16) lead
17) bismuth
18) chlorine
19) iron
20) zinc
21) polonium
22) tellurium
23) tungsten
24) molybdenum
25) seaborgium

Determine what elements are denoted by the following electron configurations:

26) 1s22s22p63s23p4 ____________________

27) 1s22s22p63s23p64s23d104p65s1 ____________________

28) 1s22s22p63s23p64s23d104p5 ____________________

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Electron Configurations - Solutions

Note: The electron configurations in this worksheet assume that lanthanum (La)
is the first element in the 4f block and that actinium (Ac) is the first element in the
5f block. If your periodic table doesn’t agree with this, your answers for elements
near the f-orbitals may be slightly different.
1) sodium 1s22s22p63s1
2) iron 1s22s22p63s23p64s23d6
3) bromine 1s22s22p63s23p64s23d104p5
4) barium 1s22s22p63s23p64s23d104p65s24d105p66s2
5) thallium 1s22s22p63s23p64s23d104p65s24d105p66s24f145d106p1
6) cobalt [Ar] 4s23d7
7) silver [Kr] 5s24d9
8) tellurium [Kr] 5s24d105p4
9) radium [Rn] 7s2
10) astatine 1s22s22p63s23p64s23d104p65s24d105p66s24f145d106p5
11) lithium 1s22s1
12) oxygen 1s22s22p4
13) calcium 1s22s22p63s23p64s2
14) titanium 1s22s22p63s23p64s23d2
15) rubidium 1s22s22p63s23p64s23d104p65s1
16) lead 1s22s22p63s23p64s23d104p65s24d8
17) bismuth 1s22s22p63s23p64s23d104p65s24d105p66s24f145d106p3
18) chlorine 1s22s22p63s23p5
19) iron 1s22s22p63s23p64s23d6
20) zinc 1s22s22p63s23p64s23d10
21) polonium 1s22s22p63s23p64s23d104p65s24d105p66s24f145d106p4
22) tellurium 1s22s22p63s23p64s23d104p65s24d105p4
23) tungsten 1s22s22p63s23p64s23d104p65s24d105p66s24f145d4
24) molybdenum 1s22s22p63s23p64s23d104p65s24d4

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25) seaborgium
1s22s22p63s23p64s23d104p65s24d105p66s24f145d106p67s25f146d4
or [Rn] 7s25f146d4
26) 1s22s22p63s23p4 sulfur
27) 1s22s22p63s23p64s23d104p65s1 rubidium
28) 1s22s22p63s23p64s23d104p5 bromine