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Describe the four quantum numbers used to characterize an electron in an atom.

   Describe the four quantum numbers used to characterize an electron in an atom.
 
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00:03 Okay, so four quantum numbers.
00:06 I like to think of these as an electron's address and where it lives.
00:12 So first quantum numbers, n.
00:14 This is the size of the orbital.
00:19 Okay? we can have, it doesn't matter the shape, you can have really big orbitals or really small orbitals of, of course, varying shapes.
00:28 So i think to think this is the country.
00:30 Okay.
00:30 So l is the shape of the orbital.
00:34 So there are three shapes.
00:39 So the s orbital is a sphere.
00:43 So the s orbital is a sphere.
00:47 Imagine kind of 3d -like.
00:50 The p orbital is what we call a dumbbell shape.
00:54 So it looks something like this with a node right here where the nucleus would be.
00:58 So this node, there will be no electron density there.
01:02 D orbital is going to be what we call a double dumbbell.
01:12 So these three are the main three shapes.
01:15 There are g and f.
01:18 They're very hard to draw, and they're really only present in really, really big atoms, like the radioactive ones using nuclear fusion and fission.
01:31 So i'm going to focus on these for now.
01:33 So the m sub -l is the sub -unit...
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