L-shell

[el-shel]

L-shell

[el-shel]
noun Physics.
the second shell of electrons surrounding the nucleus of an atom and containing, when filled, eight electrons having principal quantum number 2.


Origin:
1925–30
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L-shell is always a great word to know.
So is electric intensity. Does it mean:
the process in which energy is emitted as particles or waves, transmitted through an intervening medium or space, and absorbed by another body
the magnitude of an electric field at a point equal to the force that would be exerted on a small unit charge placed at the point
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