Definition: a statement describing the populations of electronic energy sublevels of an atom. See the chart of electronic configurations to get the notation for all of the elements.

Example: The electronic configuration of the Li atom is 1s²2s, which indicates there are two electrons in the 1s sublevel and one electron in the 2s energy sublevel.

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