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An orbital described with the help of a wave function. Since many wave functions are possible for an electron, there are many atomic orbitals. When atom is placed in a magnetic field the possible number of orientations for an orbital of azimuthal quantum number 3 is
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When l = 3, magnetic quantum number has 7 values 
These values are represented as
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