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Electrons as waves

The Bohr model of the atom provides an example where we must think of the electron as a wave - we argued at the beginning of this chapter that thinking of the electron as a particle fails completely. Additional evidence for the wave nature of electrons comes in two places: electron diffraction and in electron microscopes.

 

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