Ok so the question "Why don't the electron layers in a molecule start with A and go on?" because it starts with K and L M N and so forth.
I can't find the answer anywhere and if any of you could possibly help, that would be quite grand!
tyvm

Lee,

hey man...i just open my rusty brain...

i remember how i love quantum physics back in my pre-university....

i still remember how Bohr dreamt about electron dancing in the atom..

hey man, i also cant figure out why they're name start from K,L ...

just like the electron shape which were name, sp, p , sp1 etc..etc

funny, why do u need this answer??

Extra credit for research paper...
lol

wow Lee....

good luck in your research

let me know the answer since i'm also eager to know.......

I'm guessing here, but... the first layer was called K perhaps because of a man who discovered the phenomenon and later layers were just alphabetically added. I could be very wrong here, but such namings are something science often does... A good example could be a technique called Southern blot invented by a man called Southern; the techniques devised from that one are called Northern and Western... kind of funny in a nerd sort of way...

I don't know if that makes any sense or if it is a correct answer. Just something that could be true...

Mario.

Wikipedia says this electron shells

might of course be worth checking a bit further to verify the information.

OK, so I finally found the answer...sorta
It originally started at A, but then this electro-majig thing was this and that, so later, they started going alphabetically from K from the german word cat something...
thanks to all that replied!