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In chemistry and atomic physics, an electron shell may be thought of as an orbit that electrons follow around an atom's nucleus. The closest shell to the nucleus is called the "1 shell" (also called the "K shell"), followed by the "2 shell" (or "L shell"), then the "3 shell" (or "M shell"), and so on further and further from the nucleus.
This page shows the electron configurations of the neutral gaseous atoms in their ground states. For each atom the subshells are given first in concise form, then with all subshells written out, followed by the number of electrons per shell.
The electron-shell configuration of elements beyond hassium has not yet been empirically verified, but they are expected to follow Madelung's rule without exceptions until element 120. Element 121 should have the anomalous configuration 8s 2 5g 0 6f 0 7d 0 8p 1, having a p rather than a g electron.
The 2s electron is lithium's only valence electron, as the 1s subshell is now too tightly bound to the nucleus to participate in chemical bonding to other atoms: such a shell is called a "core shell". The 1s subshell is a core shell for all elements from lithium onward. The 2s subshell is completed by the next element beryllium (1s 2 2s 2). The ...
Lithium fluoride is the only alkali metal halide that is poorly soluble in water, [5] and lithium hydroxide is the only alkali metal hydroxide that is not deliquescent. [5] Conversely, lithium perchlorate and other lithium salts with large anions that cannot be polarised are much more stable than the analogous compounds of the other alkali ...
For a given value of the azimuthal quantum number ℓ, the possible values of the magnetic quantum number m ℓ are the integers from m ℓ =-ℓ to m ℓ =+ℓ, including 0. In addition, the spin quantum number m s can take two distinct values. The set of orbitals associated with a particular value of ℓ are sometimes collectively called a ...
This number tells the energy level of electrons in that shell (although there's other factors). Hydrogen and Helium, at lowest energy, have just one electron shell. Lithium through Neon (see periodic table) have two shells: two electrons in the first shell, and up to 8 in the second shell. Larger atoms have more shells.
Period 5 has the same number of elements as period 4 and follows the same general structure but with one more post transition metal and one fewer nonmetal. Of the three heaviest elements with biological roles, two (molybdenum and iodine) are in this period; tungsten, in period 6, is heavier, along with several of the early lanthanides.