Question

1. The coinage metals, Cu, Ag, and Au, all lie in one column of the periodic table. Consider Ag. An atom of Ag will have a certain ground state electron configuration according to the Aufbau principle. The outermost electrons in Ag will have the configuration?
A. 5s^2 4d^9

B. 5s^2 5p^6 4d^9

C. 5s^2 5p^6 4d^3

D. 5s^1 4d^10

E. 5s^1 5p^6 4d^4