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Q: What orbitals can an electron occupy?
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According to Hunds' rule when electrons occupy orbitals of equal energy one electron enters each orbit until?

All the orbitals contain one electron, with the same spins.


What is a molecule bonding?

Just as the valence electrons of atoms occupy atomic orbitals (AO), the shared electron pairs of covalently bonded atoms may be thought of as occupying molecular orbitals (MO).


What are the different electronic orbitals?

atomic orbitals and electron orbitals


List all the orbitals that hydrogen electrons can occupy as it fall?

list all the orbitals that hydrogen electrons can occupy as it fall.


How are electrons placed into an orbital shell?

Electrons enter the orbitals on the basis of increasing energy of sub-shells. Also, when an electron occupies an orbital another electron cannot occupy that orbital until all other orbitals of that sub-shell have atleast 1 electron.


Pauli stated in 1925 that two electrons can occupy the same orbital only if?

All other orbitals at the sub contain at least one electron


Nitrogen has one electron in each of what orbitals?

2 p orbitals


How many electrons occupy p orbitals in an arsenic atom?

Since arsenic is in the 4th period on the periodic table, it has 4 electron shells. Its electron configuration is: 1s2 2s2 2p6 3s2 3p6 3d10 4s2 4p3


Electrons move around the nucleus in paths called what?

Orbitals. Not to be confused with orbits. They don't actually move in 'paths' either. Due to their nature, you cannot determine the exact location of an electron and still know where it will be next. (See "Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle") Orbitals actually are mathematical functions which describe the probability of finding an electron in a given space.


Where do the electron go in an atom?

Into the orbitals.


What is the arrangement of electrons in the electron cloud?

The electron configuration of an atom is the arrangement of electrons in the electron cloud around the nucleus of the atom. This is an indication of the different orbitals that are occupied by electrons in the atom.


The electron cloud is divided into what?

The electron cloud is divided into s, p, d, and f orbitals. These orbitals also occur at different principle energy levels.