Question

what is an orbital? how will you differentiate between an orbit and an orbital

Answer 1

Orbit- It is a well defined circular path in which the electrons are supposed tomove in bohr's model. Orbital- Its a 3D region in the space around the nucleus in which the probablity of finding an electron is maximum. Orbital- Except sorbital, all other orbitals are directional

Answer 2

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=> It is three dimensional space where there is maximum probability of finding an electrons.

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DIFFERENCE BETWEEN OBITAL AND ORBIT :

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✴ It is well defined circular path around the nucleus in which the electrons revolve.

✴It represents the planar motion of an electron around the nucleus .

✴ Shape of orbit is circular.

✴Orbits don't have directional characteristic.

✴ There maximum number of electrons in an orbit is 2n^2 where n is the number of orbit.

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✴It is three dimensional space where there is maximum probability of finding an electrons.

✴It represents the three dimensional motion of an electron around the nucleus.

✴ Different orbitals have different shapes.

✴All orbitals expect s- orbitals have directional characteristic.

✴The maximum number of electrons is in an orbitals is two.