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Curious about the wave functions of elections shared in covalent bonds. If you have two hydrogen atoms w elections in the lowest energy state with the same spin and they join together to form a molecule H2 The spin of one of the elections will change (randomly?)
The electons of the two separate H atoms have different wave functions that become (entangled or superimposed - not clear on the right term here) once the H2 molecule is formed?
In more complex molecules the shared elections would be subject to the exclusion principle relative to the other electrons of the covalently bonded atoms?
The electons of the two separate H atoms have different wave functions that become (entangled or superimposed - not clear on the right term here) once the H2 molecule is formed?
In more complex molecules the shared elections would be subject to the exclusion principle relative to the other electrons of the covalently bonded atoms?