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Electron shell

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Organic Chemistry

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An electron shell is a group of atomic orbitals with the same principal quantum number, n, indicating its distance and energy level relative to the nucleus in an atom. These shells define the distribution of electrons around an atom's nucleus and are crucial for determining how atoms interact in chemical bonding.

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