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  2. Electron shell - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Nuclear shell model - Wikipedia

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    A model derived from the nuclear shell model is the alpha particle model developed by Henry Margenau, Edward Teller, J. K. Pering, T. H. Skyrme, also sometimes called the Skyrme model. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Note, however, that the Skyrme model is usually taken to be a model of the nucleon itself, as a "cloud" of mesons (pions), rather than as a model of ...

  4. Electron configuration - Wikipedia

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    Electron configuration was first conceived under the Bohr model of the atom, and it is still common to speak of shells and subshells despite the advances in understanding of the quantum-mechanical nature of electrons. An electron shell is the set of allowed states that share the same principal quantum number, n, that electrons

  5. Atomic orbital - Wikipedia

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    Atomic orbitals are basic building blocks of the atomic orbital model (or electron cloud or wave mechanics model), a modern framework for visualizing submicroscopic behavior of electrons in matter. In this model, the electron cloud of an atom may be seen as being built up (in approximation) in an electron configuration that is a product of ...

  6. Orbital hybridisation - Wikipedia

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    Chemist Linus Pauling first developed the hybridisation theory in 1931 to explain the structure of simple molecules such as methane (CH 4) using atomic orbitals. [2] Pauling pointed out that a carbon atom forms four bonds by using one s and three p orbitals, so that "it might be inferred" that a carbon atom would form three bonds at right angles (using p orbitals) and a fourth weaker bond ...

  7. Aufbau principle - Wikipedia

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    The rule then predicts the electron configuration 1s 2 2s 2 2p 6 3s 2 3p 6 3d 9 4s 2, abbreviated [Ar] 3d 9 4s 2 where [Ar] denotes the configuration of argon, the preceding noble gas. However, the measured electron configuration of the copper atom is [Ar] 3d 10 4s 1. By filling the 3d subshell, copper can be in a lower energy state.

  8. Ethanium - Wikipedia

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    Ethanium (C2 H + 7). In chemistry, ethanium or protonated ethane is a highly reactive positive ion with formula C 2 H + 7.It can be described as a molecule of ethane (C 2 H 6) with one extra proton (hydrogen nucleus), that gives it a +1 electric charge.

  9. Valence bond theory - Wikipedia

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    The core orbitals and electrons remain essentially unchanged during the formation of bonds. σ bond between two atoms: localization of electron density Two p-orbitals forming a π-bond. The overlapping atomic orbitals can differ. The two types of overlapping orbitals are sigma and pi.