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If charge is quantised, how can It delocalize?
Quantum theory states everything is unlocalized until it is observed. Consider the double-slit experiment, which applies to photons and electrons, to atoms and even molecules... Through which slit ...
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If diborane has 3c-2e bonds, then why are both boron atoms still electron deficit?
Well at least according to Professor William Lipscomb, who won a Nobel Prize "for his studies on the structure of boranes illuminating problems of chemical bonding", they are not electron ...
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