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the faster the wavelength and the higher the wave’s energy

I Anatomic electron spreads out into cloud-like wave shapes called “orbitals.” … But the electron does not “leap” anywhere. Shown here are critical electron transitions in the hydrogen atom. When an electron transitions between atomic states, it does not instantaneously leap Atomic electron transition is a change of an electron from one energy level to another within an atom or artificial atom. … Electron transitions cause the emission or absorption of electromagnetic radiation in the form of quantized units called photons. An electron shell may be thought of as an orbit followed by electrons around an atom‘s nucleus in chemistry and atomic physics.  Each shell can contain only a fixed number of electrons:  The first shell can hold up to two electrons, the second shell can hold up to eight (2 + 6) electrons, the third shell can hold up to 18 (2 + 6 + 10) and so on. Each shell consists of one or more subshells, and each subshell consists of one or more atomic orbitals.
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