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1. Hunds Rule

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   Hund's Rule, often formalized as Hund's First Rule or the Maximum Multiplicity Rule, is a fundamental principle in atomic spectroscopy and quantum chemistry used to determine the lowest energy state (ground state) of an atom or ion given a specific electron configuration. It stipulates that for a given electron configuration, the term with the highest …