Question

Nitric oxide is attracted towards magnetic field when it is

Answer 1

Nitric oxide is attracted towards magnetic field when it is in the gaseous state.

- Nitric oxide is a gas at a temperature above 123 K.

- When it is in gaseous state, it has 1 unpaired electron.

- Hence, it is paramagnetic in gaseous state and attracted towards magnetic field.

- In the liquid and solid state, it forms a dimer and there is no unpaired electron.

- Hence it is diamagnetic in solid or liquid form.