If the electronic structure of oxygen atom is written as

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Hund's rule

Pauli's exclusion principle

Both Hund's and Pauli's principles

None of these

answer is A.

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Detailed Solution

According to this rule pairing of electrons does not take place until all the orbitals of the sub-shell are singly occupied.

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