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General Rules for Assigning Electrons to Atomic Orbitals
Orbital diagram
The positions of the first ten orbits of an atom on an energy diagram. Note that each block is able to hold two electrons.
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"Free High School Science Texts Project, The Atom: Energy Quantisation and Electron Configuration. October 15, 2012."
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