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If one orbital accommodates three electrons, then second period will contain ____ number of elements.

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Answered by Ronnyxxxx
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Lets take this step by step

2nd orbit has ‘s’ and ‘p’ subshells only

Subshell s has 1 orbital and subshell p has 3 orbitals

In total there will be 4 orbitals

In question there are 3 electrons in each orbital so total electrons will be 4×3=12

In a period as we go from left to right atomic no. increases i.e no. of electrons increases by 1. So for each electron 1 element is there so if there are 12 electrons; it means there are 12 elements in 2nd orbit.

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