| Click and drag on a loaded orbital.
Note that each dot is not an electron but
a measure of probability for that orbital's electron location.
Where the dots are densest, that orbital's electrons (only 2 max) have
the highest probability of being. Another way to say this is that the
smeared electron wave is most intense there.
Note that each orbital always has n-1 nodes, where n is the principal
quantum number.
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