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The quantatum mechanical model of an atom uses atomic orbitals to describe what

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The quantum mechanical model of atoms describes the three-dimensional position of the electron in a probabilistic manner according to a mathematical function called a wavefunction, often denoted as ψ. Atomic wavefunctions are also called orbitals.
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