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CuriousBanker
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Hello. I understand constructive/destructive interference for waves in general. But why do orbitals have phase? What is meant by phase for an orbital? What is the phase describing? Isn't the wave function describing where you are likely to locate the electron? Why is one positive and one negative (or one red and one blue)? I don't get what it is, or how two atoms forming a molecule and can have both constructive and destructive interference at the same time