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Subject: Why don't atoms collapse?

Date: Fri Jan 29 17:03:40 1999
Posted by Josh Scully
Grade level: teacher/prof
School: Greenhills
City: Ann Arbor State/Province: MI
Country: USA
Area of science: Chemistry
ID: 917651020.Ch
Message:

A hydrogen atom as one electron and one proton, why doesn't 
collapse since they are "pulling" on each other. I know that it 
isn't because the electron "orbits" around the proton as in 
classical physics. I have also heard that electrons behave more 
like waves nearer they are to the nucleus, does this relate to 
why atom doesn't collapse? I hope you will be fairly explicit or 
lead me to some good material on this.


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