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Hydrogen has only one electron, and it occupies a single orbital. The orbital for hydrogen is commonly referred to as the 1s orbital. The "1" indicates the principal quantum number, which corresponds to the energy level or shell of the orbital, and the "s" represents the shape of the orbital, which in this case is spherically symmetric. So, hydrogen has one orbital available for its single electron.

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