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In a cloudlike formation surrounding the nucleus.

When we get to sub-atomic particles like the electron, concepts like "location" begin to lose their meaning in the way we understand it. We no longer state that an electron "is" at a specific point, we can only state the probability of it being at that point, if measured over time.

Please note it is NOT the case that we lack the instrumentation or the cleverness to locate an electron, nor is it that the electron "knows" where it is but we don't. The location of an electron is fundamentally UNKNOWABLE, even to the electon "itself."

When one does the calculations according to the rules of quantum mechanics, one finds that an electron is most likely to be about one angstrom from the nucleus of an atom.

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