• Semjeza@fedinsfw.app
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    18 days ago

    To add for others, electrons orbiting is a convenient assumption - really they’re more a delocalised cloud of negative charge that exists in various bits of space known as “orbitals”.

    Not orbiting in the way we’d understand it from planets.

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      16 days ago

      Oh 100 % agreed. I didn’t want to get too technical and have to talk about tunneling and such haha. I hate MO theory, but it is very useful.