6.4 Electronic Structure of Atoms (Electron Configurations)

What are Electron Configurations? The electron configuration of an element describes how electrons are distributed in its atomic orbitals.

The electron configuration is the standard notation used to describe the electronic structure of an atom.

Electronic configurations describe each electron as moving independently in an orbital, in an average field created by the nuclei and all the other electrons.

The electrons occupying the outermost shell orbital(s) (highest value of n) are called valence electrons, and those occupying the inner shell ...

In the modern periodic table, elements are in order of atomic number in periods and groups. Electronic configurations model how electrons are arranged in atoms.

Electronic configuration, the arrangement of electrons in orbitals around an atomic nucleus. The electronic configuration of an atom in the ...

Electron configurations are a simple way of writing down the locations of all of the electrons in an atom.

The goal of this video is to think about electron configurations for particular atoms. And to help us with that, we will look at a periodic table of elements.

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