In chemistry what are orbitals and what is their function?

Answer 1

Orbital does not mean where an electron is. It means it is the highest probability of where the electron exist around the nucleus. Heisenberg said it is impossible for us to know where the electron is (since it is always moving) thus we have calculated wave functions....regions of high probably of where the electron PROBABLY is.

Answer 2

In Chemistry, orbital occupancy means electron configuration of atoms. It tells which element is the atom belongs to and the element's valence electron(s). That can lead to the oxidation number of the element and the element's chemical behavior. The world orbital is base on Niel Bohr's Planetary model of an atom. The planets have orbits around the sun, and electrons have orbits around the atom's nucleus

Answer 3

If you're talking about the atomic model, orbitals are the paths that electrons travel on while they circle the atom. instead of like the solar system orbits, the electron orbits are more like spherical shells. The electrons, with certain amounts of energy, stay on these fixed orbitals, until they release energy in the form of light and move down one orbital, or gain energy and move up one level. Each shell's electrons will emit a different colour on the spectrum, depending on how much energy they had released. In the modern atomic theory, the electron shells are in wave-like proportions.
The strong attraction forces of the protons in the atom and the centrifugal force and velocity of the electrons keep them in these fixed orbitals.

Answer 4

orbitals are the places that electrons spin around the nucleus of an atom. There are s, p, d, and f orbitals. The orbitals that the electrons of an atom reach depend upon how many valence electrons that atom has!

Answer 5

Orbitals are the paths that electrons follow as they orbit the nucleus of the atom.

Answer 6

it is the 3-d region where the probability of finding electron is max
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