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Why does iron have two kinds of valence number?​

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The electronic configuration of iron is: Ar3d64s2. the two electrons in the 4s orbital are paired, and two of the electrons in the 3d orbitals are paired leaving four unpaired electrons. In general when you are populating the p, d, f, etc

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