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The periodic table, electron shells, and orbitals Shells, subshells, and orbitals This is the currently selected item Introduction to electron configurations subshell, or sometimes people will say sublevels and that's where they're talking about s or p or d and eventually f so if I circle this, I'm talking about that first shell Now2s is lower energy than 2p)(image source)So for example,The seven f orbitals in the 4n electron shell, together with the single s orbital, three p orbitals and four d orbitals, allow it to contain a total of thirtytwo (32) electrons The geometry of the f orbitals is more complex than any of the previous orbitals we have looked at 7 3 Electron Configurations Of Atoms Chemistry Libretexts S p d f orbital blocks periodic table