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Thank you so much for revisiting this and clarifying.

My post finally gets a reply after 7 years, and it's revealed to not make sense. Amazing! Apologies, for that typo, it was meant to read: "With oxygen as an example, would N2 simply refer to the number of electrons in the outer shell? ie: 6?" And just to check, when you say "...and N2 is...

Sorry, just spotted a typo. I meant to say: When USING Slaters rules you get the levels of effective charge in constantly decending amounts from [1s] all the way down to [4f]Would someone be able to inform me if I've even submitted this to the correct forum?

There's something that doesn't make sense to me regarding these two rules. I was hoping someone could pat me on the head and tell me that everything was okay, and that both Slater's Rules and Hunds rule were actually complimentary and correct. So when beginning to explain Slater's Rules...

Terminology - the "upper state" Hi there! I'm reading a paper at the moment that describes a formula for an absorption coefficient with regard to radiative transfer. One of the variables in it is referred to as "N2". It describes N2 as "The number density of atoms in the upper state"...