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All electron shells form a spherical shape. The electromagnetic force is exerted in a spherically symmetrical manner, so it produces spherical results. For atoms other than hydrogen, which usually have more than one electron, the electrons do not have to fit together as concentric spheres; their individual orbitals can have all sorts of shapes, but those shapes add up to spherical shells, nonetheless.

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