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Saturday, January 20, 2018

Electron Cloud Copper

From the previous post "Most Penetrating X ray, Boron" dated 20 Jan 2018,

Ax=1.197416.781090.13.710=5.41e-10

If we assume that this is due to a particle of radius aψ we have,

a2ψ=Axπ=1.7239e-10m

aψ=1.313e-5m

This could be the size of the electron cloud of a copper atom.

This is wrong because a length 0.1m was used, it should be,

Ax=1.197416.7810910.371=5.41e-8

where a length of 1m is used,

aψ=1.313e-4m

This is the effective size of the electric field around a copper atom and not the radius of the electron orbits around the nucleus, in the electron cloud.