One orbital - 6s which can hold 2 electrons.
The valence electrons are the electrons in the partially filled outermost shell (or shells).Simplified; Oxygen has the shells filled in the following way.1s22s22p4The 2s and 2p subshells make up the outer most shell for oxygen. In the 2p subshell, It is stable with 6 electrons but with oxygen only has 4. The subshell has 3 different orbitals which can contain 2 electrons in each. This means that 1 of the orbitals is completely full while the other two only have one electron. From this we can say that there are 2 bonding valence shell electrons. Because there is a possibility of having a total of 8 electrons in the 2nd shell, this means that there must be 4 electrons which are non bonding in oxygen's valence shell.
A subshell is a subdivision of electron shells.
Subshell or Subshells
There are three p orbitals in all levels 2 and above. these are the px, py and pz orbitals, the (suffix is the direction - px lies along the x axis). In the 5th level they will be 5px, 5py, 5pz
Subshell letters indicate electron shells. The letters K-Q or numbers 1-7 are called subshell letters. They are placed in superscript form.
In theory all elements have all the orbitals. Zinc has electrons in four of them.
7 Orbitals
There are 10 electrons in the 4d subshell of the ground state of Xenon.
There is one subshell in the f orbital, which can hold a maximum of 14 electrons. This subshell has seven orbitals: 5f with each of the orbitals capable of holding 2 electrons.
The f subshell consists of 7 orbitals: 1 f-orbital which is shaped like a clover (l = 3) and can hold up to 14 electrons. The orbitals within the f subshell are labeled as 4f, 5f, 6f, and so on depending on the principal quantum number.
The 4d subshell in the ground state of atomic xenon contains 10 electrons.
zero - after the 4s orbitals are filled at Calcium, the 3d orbitals start to fill - not until Gallium do the 4p orbitals start to fill.
There are five d orbitals that can exist in a single subshell. These orbitals are usually labeled as dxy, dxz, dyz, dz^2, and dx^2-y^2. Each orbital can hold up to 2 electrons, giving a total of 10 electrons that can occupy the d subshell.
The primary difference between an s subshell and a d subshell orbital is their shape and orientation. S subshell orbitals are spherical in shape and are found at the nucleus, while d subshell orbitals have cloverleaf or butterfly shapes and are oriented along axes passing through the nucleus. Additionally, d orbitals have more complex shapes due to their higher angular momentum quantum number.
The number of orbitals in a given subshell, such as the 5d subshell, is determined by the number of possible values of the magnetic quantum number. Each orbital in a subshell is designated by a unique set of quantum numbers, including the magnetic quantum number that specifies the orientation of the orbital in space. In the case of the d subshell, there are five possible values for the magnetic quantum number (-2, -1, 0, 1, 2), so there are five orbitals in the 5d subshell.
Iodine has 7 electron-containing orbitals, corresponding to its 7 valence electrons in the p subshell. These orbitals can hold a maximum of 2 electrons each.
The f subshell has seven orbitals, with one of them having four lobes and two of them having three lobes. The other four orbitals have varying numbers of lobes.