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Electrons are easy (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Google "Electron Orbitals". All the spaces there are all the ~~possible~~ highest likely locations for the electrons. Good Introduction to some Quantum Mechanics 👍

[–] NocturnalMorning 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

No! I will not relive the horrors of that chemistry class again... you can't make me. I am happily an aerospace engineer now where I don't need this chemistry nonsense, or quantum mechanics.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Ah let's see, of the top of my head...

~~1s² 2s² 2d⁶ 3s² 2p¹⁰ ...~~

Edited (iirc now, the d block is in the middle with the transition metals, p block with metallics, Halogens, Noble Gases...):

1s² 2s² 2p⁶ 3s² 2d¹⁰ ...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

This I was fine with. But that fake make believe redox math? Like are all chemist bad at actual math, so they just came up with their own fake version?

[–] NocturnalMorning 2 points 2 months ago

You're a bad person...

[–] reinei 5 points 2 months ago

Except they only look like that if there is an external reference system imposing some structure on the atom! Otherwise all orbitals are basically spherical because they can all just be in a superposition of all possible orbitals and we couldn't tell a difference...

And then suddenly you have two atoms meeting and need to explain why 1+1=0 for their molecular orbits -.-