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What is an orbital? (8 points)

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I'm wasn't sure which context you meant.

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adjective: relating to an orbit or orbits.

british: passing around the outside of a town.

noun: each of the actual or potential patterns of electron density that may be formed in an atom or molecule by one or more electrons, and that can be represented as a wave function.

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Orbitals are like rings around the atom, each ring has a certain electric level, and could only hold a certain amount of electrons at time

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