Given that the electronic configuration of an element X is 1s22s22p63s 23p4, it can be deduced that X

Assessment: WAEC SSCE - Chemistry - 2000 (Objective) Subject: Chemistry

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Given that the electronic configuration of an element X is 1s22s22p63s 23p4, it can be deduced that X
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The electronic configuration of an element X is given as 1s22s22p63s 23p4. This indicates that the element X has a total of 16 electrons. In the electronic configuration, the last electron enters the 3p subshell. Since there are 4 electrons present in the 3p subshell, this means that the element X belongs to the 6th group of the periodic table (also known as group VI), which contains elements with 6 valence electrons. Therefore, the correct option is "belongs to group VI in the Periodic Table". The other options are incorrect as there is no information in the given electronic configuration to support those statements.

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