What do periods on the periodic table represent?
Periods represent elements that have the same number of electron energy levels. It's kinda like a series of chemical siblings!
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Think of periods as rows in a theater where each seat gets a specific atomic number, with the same number of electron shells for each row.
They are the rows that show the elements in order of increasing atomic number.
Periods on the periodic table are the horizontal rows and they represent elements with the same number of electron shells. As you move across a period from left to right, the atomic number increases.
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