How are the electrons after the N-shell filled?

How are the electrons filled after the N-shell? Is there a rule for this? For example, there is an atom where the 5th shell has 20 electrons, then 8, then 2. The 5th shell has a maximum of 50 electrons, but why isn't it filled?

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DedeM
1 year ago

Moin,

you can look at the Madelung scheme for the occupation of orbitals. For better understanding, you should have looked at the basics of the orbital model beforehand.

And clearly there are rules for the occupation,

  1. the energy rule,
  2. the dog rule and
  3. the Pauli ban and
  4. the rule of full and half-occupied orbitals

And despite these rules, there are sometimes exceptions that are (at least of me) unexplainable…

I’m also right to have fun dealing with the model ideas about nuclear construction.

Keep going!

If you still have questions about the orbital model or about the occupation after the Madelung scheme, just post it…

LG from the Waterkant

Littlethought
1 year ago

The simple formula for the maximum number N=2n^2 of the electrons per shell does not take into account the interaction between the electrons. Nothing’s as simple as it looks.

Helmut3445
1 year ago

You can forget the shell model. this is useless and has even been deleted from the curriculum. What is true is the orbital model – you can work with it.

ManFromEarth
1 year ago

The N-shell can record up to 32 electrons.

The O-shell would theoretically be able to record up to 50 electrons, but there are no known elements that fill this shell:

6S: 2 electrons

5f: 14 electrons

6p.: 6 electrons

6d: 10 electrons

5g: 18 electrons (theoretical)

With the P-shell it went even further in the sequence, but in practice it is not relevant for the known elements.

mash

PS: note the comment from