No gravity at center of earth= no pressure?

[Drakkith]

No I do not mean the interatomic distance ( distance between nuclei).

http://winter.group.shef.ac.uk/orbitron/

Please these orbital exist side by side in space, not in shells like onions.

The Boltzmann distribution curve gives an energy distribution, not a spatial one.

Electrons occupy such interesting orbitals! So are you saying that the electrons in the 2p and 6p orbitals are equidistant from the nucleus?

 

[Studiot]

It varies, but all the dumbell types (p, d) have a component right up to the nucleus where.

An interesting question is how they all co-exist in an atom with a lot of electons!

 

[Drakkith]

Easy. Because they are wavelike and have no choice!

 

[Studiot]

Because they are wavelike and have no choice!

Yes, true but still interesting.

 

[Drakkith]

Yes, true but still interesting.

Then it depends on what exactly the electrons are doing. Do they occupy the entire orbital all at once, or are they found as a pointlike object within them?

 

[DaveC426913]

Then it depends on what exactly the electrons are doing. Do they occupy the entire orbital all at once, or are they found as a pointlike object within them?

The orbital is nothing but a probability cloud. When you measure the position of the electron, it will be found within that cloud - with no indication as to what it was doing before the moment of measurement and no indication as to what it might do after the moment of measurement. The shape of the cloud simply defines the probability of where it will be found at that moment.

So, the latter.

 

[Studiot]

@Drakkith
Don't know how we got on to this but you should look up the Madelung constant

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madelung_constant

 

[DaveC426913]

This thread went off the rails around post 168, with discussion about neutrons. It should be split into a separate thread.