You see, when the light hits the atom, the atom will only absorb it if it can use it to bump an electron up an electron shell. An oxygen atom with two electrons in the innermost shell and six in the second shell. An oxygen atom, for example, has eight electrons, but these fit into two different electron shells.
The Original Hummingbird Cake Recipe. Originally submitted by Mrs. L.H. Wiggins of Greensboro, North Carolina in our February 1978 issue, this Hummingbird Cake recipe is known to have won numerous blue ribbons at county fairs. 1  View the Original 1978 Hummingbird Cake Recipe.
The Ruby-throated Hummingbirds (Archilochus colubris) are small hummingbirds that breed in southern Canada (central Alberta east to Nova Scotia) south to central and eastern USA (North Dakota east to Maine, and south to southern Texas. Vagrants travel as far west as California.