Ground-state electronic structure of an atom built up by filling orbitals in order of increasing energy (Aufbau), subject to the Pauli exclusion principle and Hund's rule of maximum multiplicity. Example: Carbon = 1s² 2s² 2p².
Electron configuration (Aufbau)
Related concepts
- Pauli exclusion principle
- Energy quantization
- Periodic law
- First ionisation energy
- Noble gases
- Helium (He, Z=2)
- Lone pair
- Aufbau principle
- Octet rule
- Russell–Saunders term symbols
- Atomic form factor f(Q)
- Madelung (n+ℓ) rule
- Noble gas chemistry
- IUPAC substitutive nomenclature: parent-chain + locants + suffix-priority