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p-subshell can accommodate a maximum of how many electrons?

A
6
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8
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4
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2
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Solution

The correct option is A 6

In chemistry and atomic physics, an electron shell, or a principal energy level, may be thought of as an orbit followed by electrons around an atom's nucleus. Each shell can contain only a fixed number of electrons: The first shell can hold up to two electrons, the second shell can hold up to eight (2 + 6) electrons, the third shell can hold up to 18 (2 + 6 + 10) and so on. Each shell consists of one or more subshells, and each subshell consists of one or more atomic orbitals.

Each subshell is constrained to hold 4ℓ + 2 electrons at most, namely:

  1. Each s subshell holds at most 2 electrons
  2. Each p subshell holds at most 6 electrons
  3. Each d subshell holds at most 10 electrons
  4. Each f subshell holds at most 14 electrons
  5. Each g subshell holds at most 18 electrons


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