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Orbital Diagrams

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An orbital diagram represents each orbital as a box and each electron as an arrow, arrow direction showing spin, adding detail notation lacks.

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Nitrogen's 2p diagram shows three boxes, each holding one upward arrow, matching Hund's rule.

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Electron configuration notation cannot show which orbitals in a subshell hold unpaired electrons — only a diagram shows that.

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