Alphabetical

Pauli exclusion principle

[noun]

Principle developed by Wolfgang Pauli (1925) that states that no two electrons in an atom can have the same set of four, quantum numbers. This implies that a maximum of two electrons can reside at any given quantum level only if they possess opposite values for spin.


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