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• Dividing the volume of atom into thin, concentric,  spherical layers and calculating _ 2 in each, the variation  of electron density with radial distance is found.

• The probability of the electron being far  from the nucleus is very small, but not zero.

A 90% contour depiction of the ground state; the volume in which the electron spends 90% of its time.

Concept 7-9. How electron density diagrams and radial distribution plots depict the probability of electron location within the atom

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