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Offline cliverlong

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Why are there no 1p orbitals?
« on: December 10, 2008, 03:24:52 AM »
Why are there no 2d orbitals?


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Re: Why are there no 1p orbitals?
« Reply #1 on: December 10, 2008, 02:27:15 PM »
Dear cliverlong;

Because there are no 3f Orbitals, and no 1d O., and no …, and no .. !

Or a little simpler spoken: 
That’s the way how Mother Nature has organised, and the “Schrödinger Equation” seems to be an adequate model for it:

Sorry!, if that’s maybe too philosophic for you.
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