The Allegory of the Cave. The dialogue between Socrates and Glaucon is probably fictitious and composed by Plato; whether or not the allegory originated with Socrates, or if Plato is using his mentor as a stand-in for his own idea, is unclear. In the dialogue, Socrates asks Glaucon to imagine a cave, in which prisoners are kept.
The d sublevel consists of five orbitals that can hold a maximum of  two electrons each. The total maximum number of electrons that the  d sublevel can hold is 10 electrons.
The first energy level in an atom can hold how many atoms?   The first shell of an atom can hold 2 electrons. This does not mean that all atoms do have 2 electrons in their first shell. The exception is hydrogen (atomic number = 1 â¦) which has only 1 electron in its first shell before reacting with other atoms.