Posted by JAKE on Monday, February 25, 2008 at 10:56pm.
hydrogen only has one electron, therefore it would have only one orbital
oxygen has 8 electrons....the maximum number of electrons allowed in orbital 2 is 8. therefore it has 2 orbitals.
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