How many electrons can be held in the second orbital (closest to the nucleus)

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Nikhil Freeman

Chemistry

25 July, 04:23

How many electrons can be held in the second orbital (closest to the nucleus)

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Nickolas Sutton · Answer 1

The orbital is called an energy level and they follow an 2/8/8 rule.

2 in the first

8 in the second

and

8 in the third.

so 8 would be the answer.

Zayden Joyce · Answer 2

A valence electron structure would be like this 1s^2 2s^2 2p^6 etc

1s^2 would be 2, 2s^2 would be 4, 2p^6 would be 12 and so on and so forth.