Re: "archaic" view of atom structure

From: Lewis Mammel (l.mammel_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 12/17/04 

Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 07:06:27 GMT

Lewis Mammel wrote:

> It's only with the fifth electron for Boron that we get a
> correspondence to a circular orbit with the "2p" orbital.
> The 2p electron can be found to be circling either to the
> right or to the left about any axis, always with exactly
> one quantum of angular momentum.

I should say, "to the right or to the left, or not at all"
since this is the triplet state, with lz = 1,0,-1

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