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Gosh, but this is hard to answer. The motions of electrons around their parent atoms are governed by quantum mechanical principles. These electrons don't have specific places where they are so much as they have areas where they have a high probability of being. These areas are "fuzzy" and assume different shapes depending on the atom and its ionic state. This is complicated. Molecules or compounds push the envelope even further, and now that two or more atoms are combined, the electrons have different areas of probability. The shapes of these fuzzy areas or clouds will vary from atom to molecule to compound. There are no slam dunk answers for such a general question.

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