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Question
What is meant by ‘period number’. What does it signify?
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Solution
Period number: “Period numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 signifies – no of electron shells of an element.”
i.e. period no. 2 signifies the second shell from the nucleus
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