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NEET UG CHEMISTRY MCQ: STRUCTURE OF ATOM

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The number of elliptical orbits, including circular orbits in the M-shell of an atom is:
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Option A (3) is correct because the M-shell corresponds to the principal quantum number n=3, and for n=3, there are 3 possible values of the azimuthal quantum number l (0, 1, 2), representing 3 subshells and thus 3 elliptical orbits.

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