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Grade 11Physical Chemistry

What are the nodal planes for dx2- y2 and dz2 orbitals?

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9 Years agoGrade 11
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ApprovedApproved Tutor Answer9 Years ago
@ manav 
no dal planes are those where the probability of finding the electrons is zero . 
the dz2 orbitals has two main regions of electron density , along the z axis and some of the electron density are also present in x-y plane . 
thus it have two cone shaped nodal plane 
so, it called as nodal cones . 
nodal planes are assumption concept by various observation 
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