Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Electron shells

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[edit] Electron shells

Uranium (chosen arbitrarily) has a high number of electrons; this diagram shows how they are arranged.

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An electron shell is a group of atomic orbitals with the same value of the principal quantum number n. Electron shells are made up of one or more electron subshells, or sublevels, which have two or more orbitals with the same angular momentum quantum number l. Electron shells make up the electron configuration of an atom. It can be shown that the number of electrons that can reside in a shell is equal to 2n².

This image combines all the diagrams into one SVG image, at the nominator's request.

Reason

This nomination is for a set of images (think Mandelbrot), the entirety of which can be found here. While any one alone is obviously unworthy of featured status, together, the clarity that they demonstrate the concept of the electron shell (stemming from simplicity) may be worth "featured set" status. The set is comprehensive and uniform, released under an acceptable license, and every image is an SVG. It received support at picture peer review.

From the creator: My intention in creating this set was to produce a coherent set of images that demonstrated the electron shells (with the main audience being school students), they were produced to with a colour scheme to match the work already on Wikipedia so that any separate elements included on pages would not look out of place. Greg Robson 21:46, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Articles this image appears in

I didn't check every image, so this may be incomplete, but but the sodium image appears in electron shell and neon appears in noble gas.

Creator

Pumbaa (original work by Greg Robson)

• Support as nominator — HereToHelp 15:51, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
• Strong Support Wow! Very cool. Although perhaps not one of the most attractive image sets on Wikipedia, it is certainly one of the most illustrative. Jellocube27 16:42, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
• Support Cool. ^8thstar 18:49, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
• Support by creator Although not the most glamourous, they might go some way to helping some GCSE or A-level student grasp the concept in chemistry! A lot of time and effort was taken to create the different rings and get the spacings right in order to make what is an A0 (twice your standard flipchart) landscape poster! Greg Robson 21:36, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
• Strong Support Full Table Version - incredibly well done, and in SVG to boot. --Uberlemur 23:09, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
• Strong Support table version per Uberlemur — Jack · talk · 10:59, Monday, 2 April 2007
• Support either with preference to full table version, both are great and encyclopedic--User:Ahadland1234 23:13, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
• Oppose Useful for high-schoolers only if high schoolers can find them. Convince me that the set as a whole is useful and linked in the encyclopedia in a useful way, and I'll support. Otherwise, these diagrams at lots of different articles might confuse people as to what electron shells actually are. It'll be even easier to convince me to support the periodic table version, but where would that version be in the encyclopedia? At the moment, it's linked no-where. Enuja 02:07, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

• Well, for one thing, it's too big to put much of anywhere unless would prefer a fullscreen scrolling mechanism.--HereToHelp 03:03, 3 April 2007 (UTC)