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Q. From the following pairs of ions which one is not an iso-electronic pair?

NEETNEET 2021Classification of Elements and Periodicity in Properties

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Isoelectronic refers to two atoms, ions, or molecules that have the same number of total electrons and the same number of valence electrons. (a) $O ^{2-}$ and $F ^{-}$both have 10 electrons (b) $Na ^{+}$and $Mg ^{2+}$ both have 10 electrons (c) $Mn ^{2+}$ and $Fe ^{3+}$ both have 23 electrons (d) $Fe ^{2+}$ has 24 electrons. $Mn ^{2+}$ has 23 electrons.