Orbital
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An electron orbital is the region of space in which there is a high probability of finding an electron with a specific energy level. Orbitals are effectively divisions of subshells, and different orbitals correspond to the orientation of the shape determined by the subshell around the nucleus. In their ground state orbitals of the same subshell are degenerate, that is they all contain electrons of the same energy level. The maximum number of electrons an orbital can hold is two, and they must contain opposite spins.
By Hund's Rule electrons will attempt to singularly fill all the orbitals with the same energy level (that is all the orbitals of a subshell in ground state) before they pair up.
