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lukko
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Hmm, why does the hydrogen atom look like a d orbital?
Isn't it 1s1 in the ground state so the probability distribution would look like a sphere.
plus
on April 23, 2024
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I assume it's just mislabeled, it's a high-angular-momentum hydrogenic orbital, chosen because it looks cool and because it's trivial to evaluate (a spherical harmonic times a simple radial term).
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Isn't it 1s1 in the ground state so the probability distribution would look like a sphere.