Aisle 7No. 111 of 460
Splashery
Electron Orbital
610,000 small parts. Assembled in your browser.
Empty. Now look down.
Swipe across the pack to tear it open.
Press and hold. It pulls itself together.
Let go to drop it.
It stays in its pack here. The Playground has the rest.
Atoms · Built from a recipe
Electron Orbital
An electron does not circle the center of an atom like a planet.
Play with it in the Playground
How to play
Tap it to excite the electron. Pick any orbital up to 4f, or lobes, in the Splash tab.
Toy facts
- Item
- No. 111 of 460
- Shelf
- Aisle 7, Atoms
- Kind
- Built from a recipe
- Small parts
- 610,000
- Sound
- Yes
- Batteries
- None
- Assembly
- It does that itself
- Licenses
- CC0
- Price
- $0.00
Small parts are the splats in its usual build on a computer. A phone may draw fewer.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Excite the electron | Tap | ||
| Excite | Button | ||
| Orbital | List | 30 choices | 3d (z²) |
| Look | List | 2 choices | Cloud |
| Plus phase | Color | #ff8a3d | |
| Minus phase | Color | #3d8bff |
About it
An electron does not circle the center of an atom like a planet. It spreads out as a cloud, called an orbital, that shows where it is most likely to be found. Orbitals come in set shapes: a ball, a dumbbell, a dumbbell with a ring, and more. The two colors show where the electron's wave is plus and where it is minus, not electric charge.
Pick an orbital from 1s to 4f, as a cloud or as lobes, in the Splash tab. Tap it and a tiny packet of light, a photon, comes in. The electron takes it in, jumps up to a bigger orbital and glows, then drops back with a flash and gives the light out again. This is how glowing gases give off light of their own colors.
Details
- Splats
- Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 60,000 at Low, and up to 880,000 at Max
Sources and credits
| Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|
| highvoltagearc.wav (neuron-arc.mp3) | Sclolex | CC0 1.0 |
