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What is an electron's most likely location in the electron cloud?
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The Valence electrons, i.e. those in the outer shell of a compound are most likely to be involved in bonding. This is because they are further away from the nucleus of their atom, so experience less attractive force towards it. They are also shielded from this attraction by any electrons between them and the nucleus. Therefore, they require less energy to remove.
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∙ 7y agoThese electrons are generally located in the outermost shell.
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∙ 7y agoBonding electrons are usually in the highest energy level.
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∙ 14y agoIn circular orbits around each nucleus.
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∙ 11y agoNear the most electronegative atom.
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How many electrons in the electron cloud does argon have?
18
How does the electron cloud model of the atom represent the locations of electrons in atoms?
Scientists do not use the electron cloud model to describe the exact location of electrons around a nucleus. Electrons are quantum particles that exist as points and waves. As a wave, it cannot be said that an electron occupies any exact location, rather, the probability of its charge's existence is spread out in a cloud surrounding the atom.
Where can electrons be found?
The most likely place you might find an electron is orbiting the nucleus of an atom. They could also be found forming magnetic fields, generating light patterns in the phosphor of cathode-ray tube televisions, zooming around in live electrical wiring, being generated by cosmic ray collisions in the upper atmosphere, and forming the hot plasma of lightning strikes (no particular order).
What is the area around the atom where electrons spin?
the electron cloud
What is an example sentence of electron cloud?
The place were the electrons are found
An electrons most likely location in the electron cloud?
a proton
Where is the location of an electron outside of the nucleus?
Electrons are found in the electron cloud that surrounds the nucleus.
It is the region where electrons are most likely located?
the electron cloud
What is the electric cloud?
An electron cloud is a visual model of the most likely locations for electrons in an atom.
What is a region around the nucleus in which electrons move about?
Electrons surround the nucleus of an atom in patterns called electron shells.
What is the region of electrons?
The electrons of an atom are located in the electron cloud.
What does the electron cloud model described?
It describes the most likely locations of electrons in atoms.
What particles are located in the electron cloud?
Electrons are the particles found in electron clouds.
What is the place in the electron cloud where electrons are most likely to be found?
energy levels
Which term refers to the region of an atom where an electron is most likely to be found?
That would be the electron cloud. This is like the orbital model where there are electrons in each orbit level but the electron's location can not be predicted so it is said to be most likely at a point in the electron cloud.
Model with dark bands representing energy levels shows where an atom's electrons are most likely to be?
The answer to that would be: An Electron Cloud Model
What is the region around the nucleus where electrons are found?
The electron cloud. An electron cloud is a volume or region in the atom where it is likely to find or detect an electron. It is actually really hard to detect an electron because an atom is mostly empty space, electrons are orbiting the nucleus at almost the speed of light so they orbit really fast, the electrons are very tiny and may be point like since we don't really know the volume or size of the electron, and an atom in reality is 3 dimensional which the electron cloud and orbitals is 3 dimensional. Since electrons are so hard to detect then they would call this volume or region of the atom an electron cloud because the electron cloud is a volume or region where they know that electrons are likely to be there even if they are hard to find. Or maybe the electron cloud is where they can also know the different sub- orbitals or subshells of the electrons.
