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    What does an atom look like?

    Question #68812. Asked by niale. (Jul 25 06 3:41 PM)


    zbeckabee

    		A semi-accurate depiction of the helium atom. The darkness of the electron cloud corresponds to the line-of-sight integral over the probability function of the 1s electron orbital. The magnified nucleus is schematic, showing protons in pink and neutrons in purple. In reality, the nucleus (and the wavefunction of each of the nucleons) is also spherically symmetric.


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Helium_atom_QM.png

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

    Jul 25 06, 4:02 PM

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