Why are the parts of an atom that electrons occupy called electron cloud

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Jacobo · Answer 1 · 2017-10-23T13:00:51+0000

It's called and electron cloud because the electrons can move around their orbitals freely and they don't have a distinct path or rotation that they follow, it like a big jumble of particles flying around as they please.

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