what are orbitals ? where they are found in an atom ? are they a part of orbits?
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Any particular electron will be found in a region of space known as an orbital.
Orbitals come in all sorts of different shapes and sizes, and you can read about some of these on the Orbitals page. An orbital is just a bit of space where there is a 95% chance of finding that particular electron. If an electron is in a particular orbital, you know about its energy - but there is no way of knowing how it is moving around within that orbital.
The big problem in all of this, to my mind, is the confusion in the words "orbit" and "orbital". They sound as if they refer to something very similar. They don't! It would have been much better if orbitals had been called something entirely different.
Orbitals come in all sorts of different shapes and sizes, and you can read about some of these on the Orbitals page. An orbital is just a bit of space where there is a 95% chance of finding that particular electron. If an electron is in a particular orbital, you know about its energy - but there is no way of knowing how it is moving around within that orbital.
The big problem in all of this, to my mind, is the confusion in the words "orbit" and "orbital". They sound as if they refer to something very similar. They don't! It would have been much better if orbitals had been called something entirely different.
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Orbit is a well-defined circular path followed by electron around nucleus.The maximum no. of electrons in an orbit is 2n2. Orbitals is a region of space around the nucleus where the probability of finding an electron is maximum.Orbitals have different shapes.
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