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Elements in the Periodic Table range from the lightest elements with electrons normally occupying one shell (hydrogen and helium) to the heaviest, with electrons in seven shells (radium and uranium, for instance)."},{"id":"4c86c753208a7aaa9a328d11","ordinal":2,"subOrdinal":2,"text":"Any of the stable states of other particles or collections of particles (such as the nucleons in an atomic nucleus) at a given energy or small range of energies."}],"ordinal":1}],"pronunciationSets":[{"pronunciations":[{"ipa":{"text":"shĕl"}}]}],"slug":"shell","source":"american-heritage","type":"science"}],"type":"science"},{"entries":[{"createDate":"2012-01-01T00:00:00Z","headword":{"normalizedForm":"shell","standardForm":"shell"},"id":"4effa20069646d2100132480","lang":"en","modifyDate":"2012-01-01T00:00:00Z","ngrams":{"allLetters":true,"forward":"shell","groups":["e","h","l","ll","s"],"numLetters":5,"reverse":"llehs","subwordTokens":["shell","hell","ell","ll","l"]},"normalizedLetter":"s","ordinal":1,"partOfSpeechBlocks":[{"definitions":[{"crossReferences":[{"targetEntry":{"headword":"in one's shell","slug":"in-ones-shell"},"type":"idiom"}],"id":"4effa20080539d28583541a2","ordinal":1,"source":"american-heritage","text":"In addition to the idiom beginning with shell, also see in one's shell."}],"id":"4effa20080539d28583541a3","ordinal":1}],"slug":"shell","source":"american-heritage","type":"idiom"}],"type":"idiom"}],"meta":{"arg":"shell","requestId":"w5eYoULUWT1tyR_VfGWfs","requestStatus":"fulfilled"}},{"type":"fetchSpellSuggestions/fulfilled","payload":{"data":{"lunaWithSlug":[{"displayForm":"Shelly","slug":"shelly"},{"displayForm":"Sheol","slug":"sheol"},{"displayForm":"Shull","slug":"shull"},{"displayForm":"Snell","slug":"snell"},{"displayForm":"Szell","slug":"szell"},{"displayForm":"shell","slug":"shell"},{"displayForm":"Shelley","slug":"shelley"},{"displayForm":"Sheila","slug":"sheila"},{"displayForm":"Shelby","slug":"shelby"},{"displayForm":"Shelta","slug":"shelta"}],"tunaWithSlug":[{"displayForm":"hell","slug":"hell"},{"displayForm":"shell","slug":"shell"},{"displayForm":"shells","slug":"shells"},{"displayForm":"bell","slug":"bell"},{"displayForm":"cell","slug":"cell"},{"displayForm":"dell","slug":"dell"},{"displayForm":"dwell","slug":"dwell"},{"displayForm":"ell","slug":"ell"},{"displayForm":"fell","slug":"fell"},{"displayForm":"hello","slug":"hello"}]}},"meta":{"arg":{"word":"Shell"},"requestId":"fRHj_EUkG-dSc3tcqoN5w","requestStatus":"fulfilled"}}]},"actionData":null,"errors":null}

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