How do you find out the amount of valence electrons on the d-block?

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abb0t · Answer

You can look at the periodic table as well as the charge for the given metal.

anonymous · Answer

how many valence electrons would gold have then?

abb0t · Answer

Gold is a bit complicated becuase not only does it have d-electrons, but it also has f-orbital electrons. Does that make sense? Once you move down first row metals, it gets a bit more complex. does that make sense. But it has 10 d-orbital electrons in it's valence shell.

anonymous · Answer

yeah that's what im confused on. how do you figure it out or is it impossible?

abb0t · Answer

It's not impossible, but you should just sort of recognize that the last two usually have d$^{10}$ configuration and s$ ^1$ meaning one electron in the s-orbital.