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Course: UP Class 9th Science > Unit 4
Lesson 1: Week 1- Rutherford’s gold foil experiment
- Drawback of the Rutherford model
- Bohr's model of an atom
- Structure of an atom
- Different models of Atom
- Electron distribution in shells
- Electron distribution in electron orbits
- Optional: More questions on electron distribution in electron orbits
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Electron distribution in shells
How are electrons distributed in the shells around the nucleus? Do they follows any rules? Let's find out!
Created by Vibhor Pandey.
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- Octate rule says that the outermost layer can have maximum of 8 electrons, but the layer in which 8 electrons are grtting filled isn't the outermost layer.
Can't understand this concept.(2 votes)- The outermost layer can have 8 electrons. That does not mean it always will. The second-to-outermost will always be filled with either 2 (K shell) or 8 (L shell through N shell).(2 votes)