Talk:List of Hund's rules
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I noted this on the page for Term_Symbol as well, but perhaps this is a better place. On the page for Hund's_Rules, it states that they can only be used to determine the ground state, not to order the excited states by energy. However, on the Term_Symbol page it seems to use Hund's Rules for exactly this. I don't know enough about the subject to know where the error lies, but there certainly appears to be an inconsistency at present. --Westm 07:00, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
"For atoms with less than half-filled shells, the level with the lowest value of J \, lies lowest in energy. Otherwise, if the outermost shell is more than half-filled the term with highest value of J \, is the one with the lowest energy." This sentence is confusing me for the exactly half filled case. It says 'less than half filled shells...otherwise...more than half filled' what about half filled shells? This is made more confusing in the body, where it says 'The value of \zeta (L,S)\, changes from plus to minus for shells greater than half full.' Xaerocool 08:20, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
