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Orbital Shapes

These are the shapes of the first five atomic orbitals, 1s, 2s, 2px, 2py, and 2pz.

These are the shapes of the first five atomic orbitals, 1s, 2s, 2px, 2py, and 2pz. The colors indicate the wavefunction phase.

Mortadelo2005, Wikipedia Commons

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