Electronic Structure of Atoms

________: only 2 electrons can occupy an orbital and their spins must be paired.

________: when orbitals of equal energy (called degenerate) are available but there arent enough electrons to fill all of them completely, one electron is added to each orbital before a second one is added to any of them; spins of the single electrons in the degenerate orbitals should be aligned.

The ________ of an electron that prefers to be delocalized, spreading the electron density over a large volume space.

________ are drawn as arrows.

________: orbitals fill in order of increasing energy, from lowest to highest.

________: a region of space that can hold 2 electrons and has a specific quantized energy.

________: orbitals have no net overlap.

________: the energy it takes to remove an electron from an atom or molecule.

________: the ability to do work.

________ are divided into subshells (spdf)

________: only specific values of energy are possible.

________: pictorially designate where electrons are placed in an electron configuration.

________ in lower energy orbitals are held tightly to the nucleus.

only specific values of energy are possible

a region of space that can hold 2 electrons and has a specific quantized energy

orbitals have no net overlap

electron configuration of lowest energy

orbitals fill in order of increasing energy, from lowest to highest

only 2 electrons can occupy an orbital and their spins must be paired

when orbitals of equal energy (called degenerate) are available but there arent enough electrons to fill all of them completely, one electron is added to each orbital before a second one is added to any of them; spins of the single electrons in the degenerate orbitals should be aligned

pictorially designate where electrons are placed in an electron configuration

the ability to do work

a state of a system at higher energy than the ground state

the energy it takes to remove an electron from an atom or molecule