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State the Pauli exclusion principle and one consequence of it.
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Answer
No two electrons in an atom can have the same values of all four quantum numbers. A consequence is that an orbital can hold at most two electrons, and those two must have opposite spins.
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Explanation
It is what limits the capacity of each shell and subshell.
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