Azimuthal quantum number

Azimuthal quantum number - quantum number for an atomic orbital that determines its orbital angular momentum and describes the shape of the orbital, and is symbolized as ℓ. Article "Azimuthal quantum number" in English Wikipedia has 39.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 13 references and 9 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

Since the creation of article "Azimuthal quantum number", its content was written by 132 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 401 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 124 times in English Wikipedia and cited 674 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #20152 in March 2004
• Global: #14961 in March 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #52529 in October 2014
• Global: #55122 in October 2020

There are 29 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Azimuthal quantum number		39.7881
2	Turkish (tr) Yörüngesel kuantum sayısı		27.5022
3	Indonesian (id) Bilangan kuantum azimut		26.6095
4	Hebrew (he) מספר קוונטי זוויתי		24.6316
5	Slovenian (sl) Tirno kvantno število		22.8489
6	Spanish (es) Número cuántico azimutal		16.936
7	Hungarian (hu) Mellékkvantumszám		13.726
8	Czech (cs) Vedlejší kvantové číslo		13.1373
9	Arabic (ar) عدد كم مداري		12.9226
10	Persian (fa) عدد کوانتومی اوربیتالی		12.2372

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Azimuthal quantum number" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Azimuthal quantum number		1 886 342
2	Spanish (es) Número cuántico azimutal		483 132
3	Russian (ru) Орбитальное квантовое число		297 940
4	French (fr) Nombre quantique secondaire		212 398
5	Italian (it) Numero quantico orbitale		150 712
6	Chinese (zh) 角量子数		127 779
7	Arabic (ar) عدد كم مداري		115 360
8	Polish (pl) Poboczna liczba kwantowa		87 362
9	Korean (ko) 방위 양자수		55 700
10	Indonesian (id) Bilangan kuantum azimut		51 880

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Azimuthal quantum number" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Azimuthal quantum number		4 965
2	Korean (ko) 방위 양자수		539
3	Spanish (es) Número cuántico azimutal		496
4	Russian (ru) Орбитальное квантовое число		489
5	Chinese (zh) 角量子数		383
6	French (fr) Nombre quantique secondaire		349
7	Italian (it) Numero quantico orbitale		209
8	Czech (cs) Vedlejší kvantové číslo		110
9	Polish (pl) Poboczna liczba kwantowa		101
10	Arabic (ar) عدد كم مداري		86

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Azimuthal quantum number" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Azimuthal quantum number		132
2	Italian (it) Numero quantico orbitale		44
3	French (fr) Nombre quantique secondaire		25
4	Spanish (es) Número cuántico azimutal		22
5	Greek (el) Αζιμουθιακός κβαντικός αριθμός		19
6	Russian (ru) Орбитальное квантовое число		19
7	Vietnamese (vi) Số lượng tử xung lượng		19
8	Arabic (ar) عدد كم مداري		15
9	Chinese (zh) 角量子数		11
10	Portuguese (pt) Número quântico secundário		9

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Azimuthal quantum number" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Czech (cs) Vedlejší kvantové číslo		2
2	Italian (it) Numero quantico orbitale		1
3	Korean (ko) 방위 양자수		1
4	Serbian (sr) Azimutalni kvantni broj		1
5	Arabic (ar) عدد كم مداري		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Орбитално квантово число		0
7	Catalan (ca) Nombre quàntic azimutal		0
8	Greek (el) Αζιμουθιακός κβαντικός αριθμός		0
9	English (en) Azimuthal quantum number		0
10	Spanish (es) Número cuántico azimutal		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Azimuthal quantum number" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Azimuthal quantum number		124
2	Russian (ru) Орбитальное квантовое число		68
3	Chinese (zh) 角量子数		50
4	French (fr) Nombre quantique secondaire		48
5	Ukrainian (uk) Орбітальне квантове число		45
6	Arabic (ar) عدد كم مداري		38
7	Italian (it) Numero quantico orbitale		38
8	Catalan (ca) Nombre quàntic azimutal		24
9	Czech (cs) Vedlejší kvantové číslo		23
10	Spanish (es) Número cuántico azimutal		21

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic عدد كم مداري
bg	Bulgarian Орбитално квантово число
ca	Catalan Nombre quàntic azimutal
cs	Czech Vedlejší kvantové číslo
el	Greek Αζιμουθιακός κβαντικός αριθμός
en	English Azimuthal quantum number
es	Spanish Número cuántico azimutal
fa	Persian عدد کوانتومی اوربیتالی
fi	Finnish Sivukvanttiluku
fr	French Nombre quantique secondaire
he	Hebrew מספר קוונטי זוויתי
hr	Croatian Azimutalni kvantni broj
hu	Hungarian Mellékkvantumszám
id	Indonesian Bilangan kuantum azimut
it	Italian Numero quantico orbitale
ko	Korean 방위 양자수
pl	Polish Poboczna liczba kwantowa
pt	Portuguese Número quântico secundário
ro	Romanian Număr cuantic secundar
ru	Russian Орбитальное квантовое число
sh	Serbo-Croatian Azimutalni kvantni broj
sl	Slovenian Tirno kvantno število
sr	Serbian Azimutalni kvantni broj
sv	Swedish Bankvanttal
th	Thai เลขควอนตัมโมเมนตัมเชิงมุม
tr	Turkish Yörüngesel kuantum sayısı
uk	Ukrainian Орбітальне квантове число
vi	Vietnamese Số lượng tử xung lượng
zh	Chinese 角量子数

Best Rank

English: #52529 10.2014

Global: #55122 10.2020

Best Rank

English: #20152 03.2004

Global: #14961 03.2004

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