Talk:Electron configurations of the elements (data page)/Archive 1
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Visualisation project
Hi! May I recommend a project? It would be very useful to see the progression of electron configurations in the table of elements. Is there anyone who could produce this picture or participate in its production? Probios (talk) 16:02, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
This page is intended as an authoritative data collection with citation of sources, that may be cited as a central reference by other articles (such as for the chemical elements). Femto 10:05, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
Nickel
Today Lanthanum-138 changed the configuration of nickel from [Ar]3d8 4s2 to [Ar]3d9 4s1. Actually nickel should be labelled as disputed, as noted at Electron configuration with a link from the word "disputed" to a detailed explanation at Nickel. The present References section of this page says that "All sources concur with the data above except in the separately listed instances"; if they concurred with [Ar]3d8 4s2 previously, then the same sources do not concur with [Ar]3d9 4s1 now.
Can we modify this data page so that it gives both configurations with an explanatory note or link, as in the Electron configuration article? Dirac66 (talk) 18:14, 30 April 2011 (UTC)