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.
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.
BreadOven@lemmy.world 1 week 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.