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yieldcrvyesterday at 7:50 PM2 repliesview on HN

Not spherical huh, where did you learn that and where would I go to learn that


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zuluxtoday at 12:59 AM

That's the Bohr model. It works surprisingly well for hydrogen. Then there's the probability-cloud model, which works much better. And then there's the “strictly speaking, the orbital isn't actually a probability distribution at all; it's a wavefunction, Ψ, and ∣Ψ∣^2 gives you the probability density” model.

It gets weird. Like, maybe-there's-only-one-electron-in-the-universe weird.

timcobbyesterday at 8:42 PM

Look up "molecular orbitals" should be enough of a search to get the info