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What is Orbital energy and radius?

Also known as: orbital energy · orbital radius

Definition 13.13 University Chemistry — Year 2 · Chapter 13 — Atomic Orbitals: Shapes, Energies and Sizes

In Slater’s model, the orbital energy of an electron of effective charge Z∗Z^* and effective principal quantum number n∗n^* is ε=−ERZ∗2/n∗2\varepsilon = -E_RZ^{*2}/n^{*2}, and its orbital radius is n∗2a0/Z∗n^{*2}a_0/Z^*, the most probable radius of a hydrogen-like orbital of charge Z∗Z^*.

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