Why isn't iron stable? Even when its electronic configuration is 2,8,8
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The atomic number of iron is 26 and it is completing an octet, then why isn't iron ... How can iron have an electronic configuration of 2, 8, 14, and 2? ... Now this doesn't exceed the number 8, therefore the atom's stable.