What is ground state of an electron?
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Electron Configuration Defined
Just like we have a place to live, in the world of subatomic particles, electrons also have their own place. Where they go is dictated by the electron configuration, which describes the electron arrangement within an atom.
For electrons, there is a ground state and an excited state. In this lesson, we'll be discussing the ground state electron configuration. When we talk about the ground state electron configuration, we're talking about the electron configuration of an atom at the lowest energy level possible.
In the universe, the natural state of a system is to use the lowest energy possible, so for an atom's electrons at the ground state, the electron arrangement will be at the lowest energy state that is possible for that atom.