Final NB 2016-2017 Turley

Electron Configuration
In order to write the electron configuration for an atom you must know the 3 rules of
electron configurations.
1. Aufbau
Notation
nO e
where
n is the energy level
O is the orbital type (s, p, d, or f)
e is the number of electrons in that orbital shell
Principle
electrons will first occupy orbitals of the lowest energy level
2. Hund rule
when electrons occupy orbitals of equal energy, one electron enters each orbital until
all the orbitals contain one electron with the same spin.
3. Pauli exclusion principle
an orbital contains a maximum of 2 electrons and
paired electrons will have opposite spin
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