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randombill
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This question is in regards to the degeneracy of states for an Argon atom with just one missing electron. For hydrogen the problem of finding the partition function depends on finding the the ionized state of hydrogen divided by the non-ionized state...
(please see Saha equation -> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saha_ionization_equation where
they use gi+1/ gi but most books use the following)
gi/ ga where ga for hydrogen is 2 because of the number of spins for a proton (I guess) but what about Argon's ga partition, would this require trying to find all the possible configurations (or degenerate states) down to the core (ground state)?
(please see Saha equation -> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saha_ionization_equation where
they use gi+1/ gi but most books use the following)
gi/ ga where ga for hydrogen is 2 because of the number of spins for a proton (I guess) but what about Argon's ga partition, would this require trying to find all the possible configurations (or degenerate states) down to the core (ground state)?