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Could'nt find answers by searching archives. My understanding is that electrons are standing waves (at discrete whole wave locations beginning with one whole wavelength) distributed through the spherical volume of the atom.I've never seen a spherical depiction of 1 wavelength as for the 1S orbital.I've only seen the cloud depiction.Can these be describing the exact same thing ? My understanding of the whole-wave multiples for shell locations, puts the e at dicrete locations of at least 1 whole wavelength which would seemingly never intersect the nucleus. The cloud picture of 1S seems to allow a fuzzy field of wave(partcle ?) location right down to the nucleus.Could you please clarify for me ? Secondarily, the spherical single standing wave OR the spherical cloud shown for 1S-does that represent just 1 e of that orbital or both electrons at 1S ? Thank you
Re: Clarification of electron wave/cloud issues
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