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A chlorine atom in its ground state has a total of seven electrons in orbitals related to the atom's third energy level. How many of the 17 electrons in a chlorine atom occupy p orbitals?

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Therefore we can say that the total number of electrons present in $ p - $ orbital of chlorine atoms is eleven.

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