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Thanks everyone, you all were very helpful

with salt water there are positive and negative ions, does this cancel the field somehow, would a solution containing ions of only one charge produce a magnetic field? I don't understand how this doesn't work, is it that only moving electrons and protons produce magnetic fields so ions and...

I know that moving charges produce a magnetic field, my question is if a solution of water containing ions moving through a pipe or being spun would produce a noticeable magnetic field. Would current running through a solution of ions produce a magnetic field as well? Thanks in advance

i thought that was the case, thank you for clearing that up.

This question is something that's been bothering me for a long time, there has to be a probability in this universe where a single atom is/was floating in space alone without any light exciting it. Clearly there is no heat here, so does the atom approach absolute zero asymptotically? My...

well doesn't the wave function propagate or oscillate at a certain rate or am i wrong about that? And if electrons don't actually move in the atom, they cannot be relativistic?

Do electrons in higher energy orbitals move faster than ones in lower energy orbitals?

Is chemical engineering ridiculously hard? If i really enjoy chemistry would chem engineering be a good choice?

thank you very much for your help.

so what occurs with electrons in the orbitals of an atom when a gas is heated and a photon is emitted? My understanding is that an electron from a lower orbital rises and then falls back down. How does the electron get energy to jump up if it is a higher orbital electron that is being...

thanks that was much more understandable

I appreciate the reply, but I am afraid that i have very little clue what that meant considering i am a high school student who is not well versed in the mathematics for quantum mechanics. When i say overlap i mean can an electron in a higher orbital have a probability of existing in a lower...

My question concerns the orbitals in the atom (s,p,d, and f.) I know that each orbital shell is a probability density that has a quantized energy. My question is, do the orbitals touch, or rather do higher orbitals like say a d have a probability density that overlaps a p or s orbital in a...

Whenever i read or watch something on entanglement all they seem to talk about is the spin states of electrons. And i am confused, does whatever happen to one, the opposite happens to the other or can the same thing happen to both due to entanglement. Does entanglement go further than spin...

Ok, so I've been obsessed with the wackyness of quantum mechanics for years and I can't tell you how much i want to learn the math and the equations like the dirac notation and the shroedinger equation, spin and angular momentum...all of it. As a senior in high school I am going to start...