You probably remember, the columns are no accident in a periodic table, ... Electron energy level diagrams look like the Bohr orbitals so it is only natural don’t you think? Report comment.

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Bohr created his own version of the table in 1922, based on experimental measurements of electron energies (along with some guidance from the periodic law). Bohr’s table added elements ...