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Why can't hydrogen have an L shell?


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16 minutes ago, chenbeier said:

No, the full k shell is helium structure and very stable. So there can no additional electron to L, the same reason you can not make a He- .

If you bump an electron to  H- ion, can't the electron just enter the empty L shell by releasing energy?

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8 minutes ago, Sensei said:

Hydrogen anion H- exists in cosmic space..

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_anion

 

Don’t even have to go that far. H- is used in the TRIUMF cyclotron https://fiveyearplan.triumf.ca/teams-tools/520-mev-cyclotron/

But as your link states, there is no bound excited states. Adding a third electron isn’t going to work

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