Thursday, September 24, 2009

How cool is this? High school chemistry was right!

Well, this is neat: Scientists at the Kharkov Institute in the the Ukraine have released the first photographs showing the details of the electron configurations in a single atom. And guess what? The orbitals look exactly like the expectations from years of solving the Schrodinger Equation:















In the immortal words of the comic xkcd:

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