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    Myrte.Rombouts
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    The electron does not stay still in one specific position. It moves around. There is a fairly spherical cloud, called the orbital, surrounding the nucleus where the electron is more likely to be. The orbital can overlap with the nucleus. The time-averaged postion of the electron would be the entire orbital in space.

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