Electrons in Atoms

The ways in which electrons are arranged around the nuclei of atoms.

• electron configurations

• quantum

• photons

• energy level

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The ejection of electrons by metals when light shines on them.

• Aufbau principle

• quantum mechanical model

• photoelectric effect

• atomic orbitals

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The region around the nucleus of an atom where an electron is likely to be moving.

• quantum

• atomic orbitals

• photons

• energy level

An atomic orbital may describe at most two electrons.

• Pauli exclusion principle

• Aufbau principle

• Hund’s rule

• electron configurations

The regions within which electrons have the highest probability of being found.

• Aufbau principle

• electron configurations

• atomic orbitals

• photons

When electrons occupy orbitals of equal energy, one electron enters each orbital until all the orbitals contain one electron.

• quantum mechanical model

• Pauli exclusion principle

• Aufbau principle

• Hund’s rule

The amount of energy required to move an electron from its present energy level to the next higher one.

• quantum

• photon

• energy level

• atomic orbital

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Light quanta.

• quantum mechanical model

• photoelectric effect

• energy level

• photons

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Electrons enter orbitals of lowest energy first.

• quantum mechanical model

• Hund’s rule

• Aufbau principle

• Pauli exclusion principle

The modern description of the electrons in atoms.

• quantum mechanical model

• Aufbau principle

• Pauli exclusion principle

• electron configurations