#subshells

[er-cryptid]

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[er-cryptid]

Subshells

-- indicated by the letter

-- specifies the orbital’s shape

-- possible letters      -- s      -- p      -- d      -- f

-- each letter corresponds to a different shape

-- orbitals within the s subshell have a spherical shape

-- this is a three-dimensional probability map      -- represented with dots      -- dot density is proportional to the probability of finding the electron

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[maryssnotes]

[whatisthisthedarkages]

Electron Clouds of Various Subshells

[claimingcyanogenclounds]

Spectroscopic Meditation

There's an order to the buzzing electrons that float through the clouds of their atoms. Racing together in the elements that create the compounds that build unto the universe and unto us. 

There is a a logic to notation of numbers spread out and labeled like a gridlocked graveyard.

1s, 2s: The first level of energy, starting our count as 1. 2p, 3s, 3p, 4s: Going up now letting the balls of matter change and grow. More powerful S to 2, P to 4, racing upwards like a Willy Wonka elevator. 3d, 4p, 5s, 4d, 5p, 6s: Up and up and up, the elements are more complex we've moved from hydrogen to gold and there to Actinium. Again we go S to 2, P to 4, D to 10. 4f, 5d, 6p, 7s, 5f, 6d, and 7p. The highest level has been reached, no element stretches beyond this.

 Even Lawrencium, number 103, doesn't surpass our sorting system. We've gone up S to 2, P to 4, D to 10, F to 14. There is a grace in the subshells upgrading the power, the energy levels bouncing around.

 Some unstable, some not. 

But the entire world is sorted down in to the notation's made up rules like Aufbau, Hund, and Pauli. 

We can break down all the worlds and the starts, everything we've ever seen broken down into 1s, 2s, 2p, 3s, 3p, 4s, 3d, 4p, 5s, 4d, 5p, 6s, 4f, 5d, 6p, 7s, 5f, 6d, and 7p. In theses lines you can stars colliding and dying, supernovas expanding and consuming.

 You can see the lines that cover your lover's hand or the apple you had this morning a breakfast. 

You can see blood on your head when you were only just born. Everything can be seen through the lens of subshells sorted from clouds.

With everything boiled down to spectroscopic notation.

[chemterest]

You get a periodic table reorganized by atomic structure! Chemists everywhere agree that the Mendeleev-based periodic table is totally perfect. A work of genius. A chance to marvel at the beauty of the universe. And anyone who has seen my bathroom knows that I whole-heartedly agree with that. But physicist Dr. Timmothy Stowe reorganized the periodic table of the elements to reflect quantum numbers and subshells. The result is a fantastic opportunity to offer visual and potentially kinesthetic learners (depending on how you use this resource) a chance to look at the contents of the periodic table another way.

Each element is clickable and takes you to a page overflowing with information about whichever element you clicked on. This periodic table is an awesome interactive way to get your kids to connect their material across units.

[aspiremaya]

teaching myself chem, thought this was funny.