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  2. Atomic orbital - Wikipedia

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    In quantum mechanics, an atomic orbital (/ ˈ ɔːr b ɪ t ə l / ⓘ) is a function describing the location and wave-like behavior of an electron in an atom. [1] This function describes an electron's charge distribution around the atom's nucleus, and can be used to calculate the probability of finding an electron in a specific region around ...

  3. Molecular orbital - Wikipedia

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    Complete acetylene (H–C≡C–H) molecular orbital set. The left column shows MO's which are occupied in the ground state, with the lowest-energy orbital at the top. The white and grey line visible in some MO's is the molecular axis passing through the nuclei. The orbital wave functions are positive in the red regions and negative in the blue.

  4. Electron configuration - Wikipedia

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    In each term of an electron configuration, n is the positive integer that precedes each orbital letter (helium's electron configuration is 1s 2, therefore n = 1, and the orbital contains two electrons). An atom's nth electron shell can accommodate 2n 2 electrons. For example, the first shell can accommodate two electrons, the second shell eight ...

  5. Electron shell - Wikipedia

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    In chemistry and atomic physics, an electron shell may be thought of as an orbit that electrons follow around an atom's nucleus.The closest shell to the nucleus is called the "1 shell" (also called the "K shell"), followed by the "2 shell" (or "L shell"), then the "3 shell" (or "M shell"), and so on further and further from the nucleus.

  6. Electron orbital imaging - Wikipedia

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    Electron orbital imaging is an X-ray synchrotron technique used to produce images of electron (or hole) orbitals in real space. It utilizes the technique of X-ray Raman scattering (XRS), [1] also known as Non-resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering (NIXS) [2] to inelastically scatter electrons off a single crystal.

  7. Orbital hybridisation - Wikipedia

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    It gives a simple orbital picture equivalent to Lewis structures. Hybridisation theory is an integral part of organic chemistry, one of the most compelling examples being Baldwin's rules. For drawing reaction mechanisms sometimes a classical bonding picture is needed with two atoms sharing two electrons. [5]

  8. File:Electron orbitals.svg - Wikipedia

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    The following other wikis use this file: Usage on af.wikipedia.org Elektronkonfigurasie; Usage on an.wikipedia.org Orbital atomico; Usage on ar.wikipedia.org

  9. Valence bond theory - Wikipedia

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    However, the later edition in 1959 failed to adequately address the problems that appeared to be better understood by molecular orbital theory. The impact of valence theory declined during the 1960s and 1970s as molecular orbital theory grew in usefulness as it was implemented in large digital computer programs. Since the 1980s, the more ...