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What do you mean by degenerate orbitals? Give examples.

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Degenerate orbitals are the orbitals of the same subshell having equal energies. When the electrons of the orbitals are not influenced by any external factors like an electric field or magnetic field, they have same energies
Example: px,py,pz

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