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Atomic Orbitals

What Is An Atomic Orbital?

The 1s, 2s and 3s Orbitals

The 2p and 3p Orbitals

The 3d Orbitals

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What Is A Hybrid Orbital?

The sp, sp2 and sp3 Hybrid Orbitals

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The 1s, 2s and 3s Orbitals

 

Note that

bulletdue to the size of the orbital files, it may take several seconds for the orbitals to appear, and
bulletonly the total electron density is shown for each orbital (i.e., the phases for each orbital are not shown).

 

x-axis = yellow    y-axis = green    z-axis = blue

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1s

expanded view

2s

expanded view

3s

expanded view

 

Note that the total electron density

bulletis spherically symmetric about the x, y and z axes for each orbital, and
bulletlies further from the nucleus as the principal quantum number, n, increases (left to right).