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Properties of Oxygen

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Explain why $O_{2}$ molecule is paramagnetic in nature ?

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We can explain the paramagnetic nature of oxygen molecule by molecular orbital theory.
When you draw molecular orbital diagram of $O_{2}$
we can see there are two unpaired electrons are present in the last molecular orbital which shows us that it is paramagnetic in nature.

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