demonstrative Atom (realistic)

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[Conundrumer]

This is realistic? Besides the fact that electrons are a few thousand times smaller than the nucleus and the distance a few thousand miles, electrons don't even orbit the nucleus.
If it were realistic, I'd like to see the atom bond with other atoms

[Endre!]

Yeah.. its kinda unreal. Wouldnt use this to teach students about it to be 100% honest

[cdh473]

electrons are a few thousand times smaller than the nucleus and the distance a few thousand miles, electrons don't even orbit the nucleus.

lolwut
Thanks, I learned something today.
What do you mean by electrons don't even orbit the nucleus.?

[Ian151]

Electrons don't truely orbit the nucleus. This may seem strange to people who have only heard of atoms every once in a while. What electrons do is they jitter around randomly in one spot known as an... orbital, I think. There are several amounts of orbitals according to the amount of electrons in an atom. They make an abnormal looking shape but it usually stays the same structure with each similar model.
I took Chemistry last year.

[davidz40]

My 5 cents:
Electrons are never in one point of space, we can only tell the probability of finding electron at certain place. (it's a law of nature, not the result of imperfect observation methods!) The "probability map" around atom nucleus is called an electron cloud.