T>T: The Reality of Electron Density in a World of Orbitals

Orbitals Are Mathematical Pick up almost any introductory chemistry textbook and you will find an orbital depicted as a tangible object: a lobed shape around an atom, a probability cloud you could in principle photograph. I entered the insane world of chemistry through the side door and found it interesting that chemists speak of electrons being in 1s orbitals, of bonds formed by the overlap o...