It can hold up to two electrons.
The first energy level in the electron cloud can hold a maximum of 2 electrons.
The first electron energy level can only hold 2 electrons. Hydrogen only has 1 first energy level electron as it only contains one proton and one electron total.
The atom will have 3 energy levels. The first energy level can hold up to 2 electrons, the second level can hold up to 8 electrons, and the third level can hold the remaining electron.
The first energy level can hold 2. The second level can hold 8. The third level can hold 18. Fourth and beyond can hold 32.
Each energy level can hold different number of electrons. The first energy level holds 2, second holds 8, and third holds 8. Because the first two energy levels of sodium can only hold 10 electrons, the sodium has a third energy level to hold the 11th electron.
The number of electrons that each energy level or electron shell can hold is given by the formula 2n^2, where n is the principal quantum number of that energy level. For example, the first energy level (n=1) can hold up to 2 electrons, the second energy level (n=2) can hold up to 8 electrons, and so on.
The first shell only hold 2 electrons, so this element has 1 electron in its first level. Hydrogen
The first energy level in the quantum (current) theory of the atom is the 1s electron orbital, which can hold two electrons.The following energy levels go like this:1s22s22p63s23p64s24p63d105s25p64d106s2...And so on. (The first number being the energy level, the letter being the shape of the electron orbital, and the superscript being the number of electrons the orbital can hold.)
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Sodium-23 has three electron levels: the first energy level can hold up to 2 electrons, the second energy level can hold up to 8 electrons, and the third energy level can hold up to 8 electrons. Sodium has an atomic number of 11, so sodium-23 has 11 protons and 11 electrons in a neutral state.
Oxygen has two electrons in the first energy level, and six electrons in the second energy level. The electron configuration is 1s2 2s2 2p4. Each level can hold a maximum number of electrons based on the formula 2n^2, where n is the energy level.
The s orbital of any energy level can only hold 2 electrons, or one pair due to the limited space and electron-electron repulsion.