Make: - Hydrogen orbital cookies
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As hard as it may be to believe, I see a lot of nerdy stuff in this job. But I have to tell you, these atomic orbital cookies from Evil Mad Scientist Labs may take all-time top honors in that department. You're looking at a chart of the orbital wave functions of a single hydrogen atom in 19 of its lowest-energy excitation states. They're 2D projections, of course, of regions in space that chemists sometimes call "electron probability density clouds." If you're thinking of electrons as particles, you can think of the intensity of the color at one spot as reflecting the probability of finding an electron in that spot.
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Ahhh… Cookies AND Science! (and cookies!)
This has got to be one of the geekest things I’ve seen recently…
…cookies…
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