How Do You Do Electron Configurations Of An Element (And What Thats Supposed To Mean?
As you plug along through your chemistry class, you’re bound to run into the concept of (gasp!) electron configuration. What’s that supposed to mean and how the heck do you find the electron configuration of an element? Don’t worry, this article will explain it all in clear detail so that you can finally start your homework. First of all, let’s define what some of these terms are. Basically, when you find the electron configuration of some element, you are just finding the pattern and number of electrons in one of its atoms. You write some notation describing that information. In order to find it, you need to know how electrons are organized in an atom. The Bohr model of an atom is the simplest, easiest way to visualize the structure of an atom. It looks a lot like a little solar system with the nucleus as the sun and the electrons as the little planets orbiting around the nucleus. As you can see in the picture above, there are more than one of these orbits. Each one of them has a numb
