Electron Configuration

How to Quickly Memorize the Standard Electron Configuration Pattern using: The Purney Cheer

(1) Look at the pattern of numbers:

1, 22334, 345, 456, 4567..., 56.

If you SAY these numbers, pausing for each comma, with a double pause before the last "56," you will notice an easy rhythm. Memorize this sequence.

(2) Next, look at the pattern of letters:

s, spsps, dps, dps, fdps..., fd.

Again, say these letters, pausing for each comma, with a double pause before the last "fd." Memorize this sequence, too.

(3) Now write down the numbers first, leaving space in between, like this:



(4) Then match the letters to the numbers by filling in the spaces leaving a little bit of space after each letter for the superscripts (small raised numbers).



(5) Finally, after each letter write the corresponding superscript.


Each "s" gets a "2."
Each "p" gets a "6."Each "d" gets a "10."Each "f" gets a "14."



You have just reproduced the entire electron configuration pattern which can be used for all the elements all the way up through the last element of the periodic table!

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