Sorry, been a while since high school. Can someone please explain why this model is incorrect, and why they teach it in high school if it’s incorrect?
In: Chemistry
The B-R model is simply far too oversimplified to be accurate, as is the case of many physics and chemistry concepts. That model implies that every pair of electrons orbits neatly in a predefined shell. In reality, electrons move within “electron clouds” which is a general area we believe electrons are likely to be at any given time. However, electrons move so fast and so erratically that they practically have no position at all. Obviously they are there but we can never say with any certainty where any electron exists at any point in time.
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