Q: What is the term for the number that describes an electron's orbital orientation in space?


Read this paragraph and choose the correct option from the provided answers:

The magnetic quantum number , signified as , describes the orbital orientation in space. Electrons can be situated in one of three planes in three dimensional space around a given nucleus and . For a given value of the angular momentum quantum number , there can be values for . As an example:.

 Choices:

- magnetic electron number

- relative quantum number

- imaging quantum number

- magnetic quantum number


A:
magnetic quantum number