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Though copper , silver and gold have completely filled sets of d-orbitals yet they are considered as transition metals. Why?

Answer» These metals in their common oxidation states have incompletely filled d-orbitals, e.g., `Cu^(2+)` has `3d^(9)` and `Au^(3+)` has `5d^(8)` configuration.


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