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electron shells

electron shells is the plural of electron shell.

Meaning of electron shell

Noun

electron shell (plural electron shells)

  1. The collective states of all electrons in an atom having the same principal quantum number (visualized as an orbit in which the electrons move).

Questions about electron shells

What is electron shells the plural of?
Electron shells is the plural of electron shell.

Words near electron shells in the dictionary

  1. electron numbers
  2. electron pair
  3. electron pairs
  4. electron paramagnetic resonance
  5. electron shell
  6. electron shells
  7. electron spin resonance
  8. electron spin resonances
  9. electron transfer
  10. electron transfer reaction
  11. electron transfer reactions

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