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Q.State and explain Pauli's Exclusion Principle.

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Pauli's Exclusion Principle states that no two electrons in an atom can have the same set of all four quantum numbers.

Wolfgang Pauli's Exclusion Principle states: "No two electrons in an atom can have the same values for all four quantum numbers (n, l, ml, ms)."

Every electron in an atom is described by a unique set of four quantum numbers — principal (n), azimuthal (l), magnetic (ml), and spin (ms). Since a given orbital is fully specified by fixed n, l, and ml values, at most two electrons can occupy that orbital, and for those two electrons to have different quantum-number sets, they must differ in their spin quantum number — one +1/2 (spin up) and one −1/2 (spin do …

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