This video is an interactive lesson in calculating an atom’s mass and atomic number. Atoms consist of a nucleus containing protons and neutrons, surrounded by electrons in shells. The numbers of ...

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IT has been recently shown (Millikan and Bowen, Phys. Rev., 24, 1924) that in optical spectra due to atoms having similar electronic configurations, the doublet and triplet separations vary according ...