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THE normal state of the atoms of the vapours of the alkali metals is an ‘s’ state, the atoms consisting of a rare gas core round which revolves the valency electron in a n1 orbit (41 for potassium, 51 for rubidium, 61 for cæsium). One would then expect that the vapours of these elements would be paramagnetic and that, when the diamagnetic properties of the rare gas cores were allowed for, a magneton number would be found corresponding to 1 Bohr magneton or 8·6 Weiss units. Data as to the magnetic properties of these vapours are apparently wanting, but the spectroscopic evidence leaves no doubt as to what is to be expected.
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JACKSON, L. The Magnetic Moment of the Orbit of the Valency Electron of the Solid Alkali Metals. Nature 117, 449 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/117449a0
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