Past exam of the chemistry A course of the University of Cambridge / 2022 / Paper 2 / A6 / a / Solution

Take the energy of an isolated, field-free gas atom as zero, and let $E_b>0$ be the field-independent binding energy at one adsorption site. The two adsorbed spin energies areHere ${\mu }_{\mathrm{B}}$ is the Bohr magneton. The lower state is stabilized by increasing $|B|$; the assignment of the two signs to names for the spin projections is a convention.