Zusammenfassung der Ressource
5.1 Electron Structure
- Atomic Orbitals
- Different types of orbital
- An orbital is a region that can hold up to
two electrons, with opposite spins
- S-orbitals
- hold 2 electrons
- Each shell
from the
first one
holds one
s-orbital
- The greater the shell number n,
the greater the radius of its
s-orbital
- Electron cloud in the shape of a sphere
- P-orbitals
- Electron cloud in the shape of a dumb-bell
- Three separate p-orbitals at right angles
to one another each that can hold one or
two electrons
- The greater the shell number n, the further the
p-orbital is from the nulceus
- D-orbitals and F-orbitals
- Each shell from the third
shell contains FIVE
D-orbitals
- Each shell from the
fourth shell contains
SEVEN F-orbitals
- In the spec you have to state the number of electrons in the first 4 shells
- Shell 1
- 2
- Shell 2
- Shell 3
- Shell 4
- 32
- 18
- 8
- Blocks in the periodic table
- s-block: Highest energy electrons in the s-sub-shell (left block of two groups)
- p-block: Highest energy electrons in the p-sub-shell (right block of 6 groups)
- d-block: Highest energy electron sin the d-sub-shell (centre block of 10 groups)