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A free electron doesn't spin around a nucleus, but as soon as it hops back into a covalent shell.... it starts its blurry little cloud dance.
Where does that energy come from?
A free electron doesn't spin around a nucleus, but as soon as it hops back into a covalent shell.... it starts its blurry little cloud dance.
Where does that energy come from?
I know the electron itself has a spin. When it is knocked off the covalent shell, does it absorb the energy from its previous orbit & store it as more spin?
I know when it's excited into another level & drops, it emits a photon, but what about when it's completely pulled out?
I know when it's excited into another level & drops, it emits a photon, but what about when it's completely pulled out?
Or am I thinking of the electron wrong? Is it always a cloud of probability, even when not attached to a covalent shell?
