Electron shells filling

The proposed new table retains most of the feature of the Janet left-step table but does not commit one to placing helium in the alkaline earths. The regular form of the table represents an advantage over the medium-long form and the closer connection with electron-shell filling that the left-step table offers is maintained with the small disadvantage that two values of n + i, namely I and 2, appear in the same first row. 

The new proposed version does not alleviate the concern that some authors voice in wanting to maintain the metals on the left and non-metals on the right of the table. We suggest that such a desideratum does not necessarily reflect the most fundamental aspects of the elements as basic substances whereas the left-step and its new variant do. The latter two forms aim to represent elements as basic substances as well as establishing a closer connection with fundamental aspects of electron-shell filling, and consequently with quantum mechanics, than the medium-long form table does. Finally, we have recently published another new table that differs only in shape from the one proposed here (10). 

ABSTRACT This article concerns various foundational aspects of the periodic system of the elements. These issues include the dual nature of the concept of an "element" to include element as a "basic substance" and as a "simple substance." We will discuss the question of whether there is an optimal form of the periodic table, including whether the left-step table fulfils this role. We will also discuss the derivation or explanation of the [n + , n] or Madelung rule for electron-shell filling and whether indeed it is important to attempt to derive this rule from first principles. In particular, we examine the views of two chemists, Henry Bent and Eugen Schwarz, who have independently addressed many of these issues. 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Quantum Chem 109 959-971, 2009... 

As mentioned previously, in 1916, Lewis noted that noble gases were particularly stable and did not form compounds. Lewis used these facts to formulate the octet rule. The noble gases have their outer electron shell filled with eight electrons. (Helium is an exception with only two electrons in its outer shell.) The octet rule says that the most stable electron configuration of an atom occurs when that atom acquires the valence electron configuration of a noble gas. That is, when an atom can acquire eight (octet) electrons in its valence shell (or two for hydrogen to become like helium). 

Fig. 5.8 The relative energies of orbitals appropriate to the point in the pericxSc table at which they are first occupied. [He], [Ne], etc. on the right-hand side show the noble gases which have their electron shells filled to the level indicated.

Another way to look at the transition metal bridge is to think of it as a path between metals and nonmetals. As the electron shells fill up from left to right across the periods, the elements become less like metals and more like the nonmetals to their right, especially the nonmetals in Groups 14 through 17. 

Each row on the periodic table is called a period. The first period contains hydrogen and helium. The second period begins with lithium and ends with neon. Because each successive element has one additional proton, each successive element also has one additional electron. In fact, most chemists tend to focus on the electrons, rather than the protons as a means of predicting chemical and physical proclivities of the elements. Periods represent adding electrons to quantum energy levels in the atom, which are called electron shells. Atoms at the end of a period each have an electron shell filled to its capacity with electrons. 

The idea of orbital EN was further developed by Iczkowski and Margrave [4]. They represented the energy of an isolated atom (E) as a function of electron shell filling ... 

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