Timeline for What determines the shape of electron suborbitals?
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| Mar 6 at 1:46 | comment | added | Matt Hanson | No, they absolutely are not. What we call the “orbitals” of multi electron atoms are simply an orbital approximation to the electronic Schrodinger equation. But a graduate level course in quantum chemistry seemed inappropriate for an answer to a simple question about why the commonly presented shapes are what they are! And the multi electron atom solutions share the same basic symmetries for their solutions because of the spherical symmetry of the potential (ie only the radial part meaningfully changes) | |
| Mar 6 at 0:47 | comment | added | Paŭlo Ebermann | Are you really saying that the orbitals in e.g. an Uranium atom are the solutions of the equation for a hydrogen atom? | |
| Mar 5 at 22:45 | history | edited | Matt Hanson | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Added some clarifying remarks |
| Mar 4 at 7:12 | vote | accept | RajaKrishnappa | ||
| Mar 4 at 4:09 | history | answered | Matt Hanson | CC BY-SA 4.0 |