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Grade 12Organic Chemistry

Why are principal quantum numbers quantised and not fractional?

Profile image of Nishu Bhatia
14 Years agoGrade 12
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Profile image of Gaurav
11 Years ago
Hello Student
Principal quantum number basically represents the number of energy level. It represents the natural numbers.
Number of energy level may be 1,2,3,,, or so on but half orbital never exist. o the number of principal quantum number i not fractional.