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 * Jaclyn and Hunter**

Hi, I am Hunter from Antartica. Yes, I live at the south pole. I like to hunt and fish. I also help penguins.

Associates: Your assigned atomic model is: Electron Cloud
Some of my stuff got lost - Hunter Powell =The Cloud Model=

Erwin Schrödinger built upon the thoughts of Bohr yet took them in a new direction. He developed the probability function for the Hydrogen atom (and a few others). The probability function basically describes a cloud-like region where the electron is likely to be found. It can not say with any certainty, where the electron actually is at any point in time, yet can describe where it ought to be. Clarity through fuzziness, is one way to describe the idea. The model based on this probability equation can best be described as the cloud model. The cloud model represents a sort of history of where the electron has probably been and where it is likely to be going. The red dot in the middle represents the nucleus while the red dot around the outside represents an instance of the electron. Imagine, as the electron moves it leaves a trace of where it was. This collection of traces quickly begins to resemble a cloud. The probable locations of the electron predicted by Schrödinger's equation happen to coincide with the locations specified in Bohr's model. ©1999 Science Joy Wagon
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Hey Hunter, My Name is Jaclyn Moseley. I live in Paris, France. One of my favorite hobbies in Paris is to go shopping because they have several different stores to go to. I do not a lot about the models but I am going to learn.


 * The Electron Cloud Model**

Ernest Rutherford and Niels Bohr were contributors to the electron cloud. Ernest Rutherford helped by finding that an atom is mostly empty space with a very small but heavy nucleus. Niels Bohr made a model of atomic structure. The real founder of the electron cloud was Werner Heisenberg. He determined that the only way to describe the location of the electrons was probability distribution which led to his idea of an electron cloud. The electron cloud model represents the probability spectrum of individual electrons at all given times and states.