Why zinc is not a transition metal?
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Zinc is not consider as a transition metal because its compounds or ions (Zn2+) contain a full filled d-orbital or sub shell and are unstable. Hence zinc do not form colored aqueous ions because it do not have at least one vacant d-orbital in which it can receive an electron in a reaction.
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A transition metal is one that forms one or more stable ions which have incompletely filled d orbitals. ... The zinc ion has completely filled d orbitals and also it does not meet the definition either. kya Therefore, zinc is not a transition element.
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