the maximum number of electrons that the p subshell can hold is 6.
the maximum number of electrons that the p subshell can hold is?
6
in the periodic table, livermorium is a member of group 16, the chalcogens, in the periodic table, below oxygen, sulfur, selenium, tellurium, and polonium. every previous chalcogen has six electrons in its valence shell, forming a valence electron configuration of nsnp. in livermorium's case, the trend should be continued and the valence electron configuration is predicted to be 7s7p; therefore, livermorium will have some similarities to its lighter congeners. differences are likely to arise; a large contributing effect is the spin–orbit (so) interaction—the mutual interaction between the electrons' motion and spin. it is especially strong for the superheavy elements, because their electrons move much faster than in lighter atoms, at velocities comparable to the speed of light. in relation to livermorium atoms, it lowers the 7s and the 7p electron energy levels (stabilizing the corresponding electrons), but two of the 7p electron energy levels are stabilized more than the other four. the stabilization of the 7s electrons is called the inert pair effect, and the effect "tearing" the 7p subshell into the more stabilized and the less stabilized parts is called subshell splitting. computation chemists see the split as a change of the second (azimuthal) quantum number "l" from 1 to and for the more stabilized and less stabilized parts of the 7p subshell, respectively: the 7p subshell acts as a second inert pair, though not as inert as the 7s electrons, while the 7p subshell can easily participate in chemistry. for many theoretical purposes, the valence electron configuration may be represented to reflect the 7p subshell split as 7s7p7p.
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a subshell is the set of states defined by a common azimuthal quantum number, ℓ, within a shell. the values ℓ = 0, 1, 2, 3 correspond to the "s", "p", "d", and "f" labels, respectively. for example, the 3"d" subshell has n = 3 and ℓ = 2. the maximum number of electrons that can be placed in a subshell is given by 2(2ℓ+1). this gives two electrons in an s subshell, six electrons in a p subshell, ten electrons in a d subshell and fourteen electrons in an f subshell.
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