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What are subshells?

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Mehar Usman, Professor (2013-present)

Answered August 1, 2018
Originally Answered: What is a subshell?
There are orbits around the nucleus of an atom in which electron revolve. these orbits or
shells are further divided into sub shells called s,p,d.f.

1. first shell(K) have only one sub-shell (S) in which two electron can occupy

2. second shell(L) have two sub shells (S,P) the sub-shell P have three components
Px, Py, Pz in which two electrons are occupy

3. third shell(M) have three sub-shell (s,p,d) here d is divide into further five
components each occupy two electrons

so there is series of sub-shell which increase which increase of shells .

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Rich Hochstim, BS Chemistry & Biology, University of Miami (1983)

Answered January 19, 2020

Originally Answered: What is the better definition of a subshell?

Q: What is the better definition of a subshell?

In the absence of an external magnetic field, a subshell is a collection of orbitals that when
all filled with two electrons each, have the exact same energy. A subshell is not a thing,
Instead we have defined it into existence. It is a logical and convenient way of grouping Related Questions
orbitals. It's like having 6 small brown eggs and 12 large white eggs and deciding to
describe them as a half dozen small brown and a dozen large white eggs—two subshells What are orbitals and subshells?
of different color and size eggs.
How is the shape of subshells determined?
The eggs are, of course, the orbitals. Orbitals are mathematical descriptions of the electron
probability density. Which may be portrayed graphically as the volume within, and What are orbitals, shells and subshells?
surrounding, the nucleus where one or two electrons spend 90% of their time.
What is the shape of subshells (I'm not asking
about orbitals)?

What are shell, subshell, orbit and orbital?

Are “s p d and f” orbitals or subshells?

 Are s, p, d, and f orbitals or subshells?
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The three orbitals on the left are collectively call the p subshell.

The three orbitals shown drawn all together on the right is also the p subshell.

The p subshell is the name for a collection of p orbitals. It is a concept. It is not a thing.
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Gopal Joshi, Technology Specialist at Honeywell International (2010-present)

Answered August 2, 2018

Hi

every nucleus has one or more orbits. protons and neutrons (if are there) will be inside
nucleus and electrons will orbit in their orbits around nucleus. The orbit is subdivided into
multiple orbits called sub shells.
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Brent Walton, former Senior Analyst at SAFC Pharma (2007-2010)

Answered April 25, 2020

Originally Answered: What is Subshell?

Consider the nitrogen atom with thefollowing electronic configuration:

N electron configuration will be 1s2s22p5.

The 2p subshells only contain one electron each. This is because putting one electron in
each 2p subshell makes the 2p subshells more stable as there is no repulsion between
these 3 electrons. So there are three 2p sub-shells known as 2px, 2py and 2pz.

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Mark Werner, Interested in general science since childhood.

Answered December 5, 2017

Wikipedia is your friend:

Electron shell - Wikipedia

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