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Why does the atomic orbital with the lower energy make the larger contribution to the bonding molecular orbital?

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Do electrons orbit in a three dimensional space? What are s, p, d, and f orbitals? Why are they shaped that way and what do they show?

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Does the mixing of s and p orbitals require absorption or releasing of energy?

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Why are the atomic orbitals of H1 and H2 at the same energy?

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What element of the periodic table has the simplest atomic orbitals?

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How many nodes are present in a 3p orbital?

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Can the nucleus of an atom freely rotate with respect to the orbitals?

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What is the next atomic orbital in the series 1s, 2s,2p, 3s, and 3p?

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Are antibonding molecular orbitals produced by destructive interaction of atomic orbitals?

asked Jan 16, 2023 in Atomic Orbitals by SeraphicAlchemy (2.7k points)

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What factors determine orbital energy in multi-electron atom?

asked Jan 15, 2023 in Atomic Orbitals by Henry Davies

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Why is 2n possible in d orbital?

asked Jan 15, 2023 in Atomic Orbitals by Diga 66

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What is meant by phases of atomic orbitals? On what basis they assign positive or negative phase to orbitals? Does a negative sign mean it is away from the nucleus?

asked Jan 11, 2023 in Atomic Orbitals by Sohail Ahmed

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How ‘p’ orbital is configured in a atom? I see many of internet images showing that p orbital placed as centered in the atom going through nuclear. I need to know how that was actually placed ina atom

asked Jan 11, 2023 in Atomic Orbitals by EmberOracle

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Are atomic orbitals observable?

asked Nov 20, 2022 in Atomic Orbitals by Philp1863

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What happens when an atom has a full outer shell?

asked Nov 20, 2022 in Atomic Orbitals by havent got a clue

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Why atomic p orbitals needs 3 electron pairs to be filled, d needs 5 and so on, why for each orbital is not one pair enough, like in s orbitals?

asked Nov 12, 2022 in Atomic Orbitals by Nathan lowe

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Why do stable atomic orbits need to rely on Planck's constant? What is the physical mechanism that makes it so?

asked Nov 10, 2022 in Atomic Orbitals by Ed311293

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Why is the 4s orbital filled first followed by 3s?

asked Oct 19, 2022 in Atomic Orbitals by n510

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What is the difference between a subshell and an orbital? Are subshells all orbitals or vice versa, or neither?

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What things are joined to make up an atom?

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