Question 1 • *26-27 CFISD TX-Chemistry A CR
The configuration writes out every occupied subshell: 1s², 2s², 2p⁶, 3s², 3p⁶, and 4s¹. That is longhand notation. Noble-gas notation would replace the first 18 electrons with [Ar], giving [Ar]4s¹.
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