Is there any difference between an orbital and a nodal plane?

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Truong-Son N.
Feb 6, 2018

There's a huge difference...

A nodal plane is a plane where electrons cannot be. The orbital CONTAINS the nodal plane. They're entirely different things.

http://www.chem.ucla.edu/

This #p_z# orbital has an #xy# nodal plane. Thus, no electrons can exist #90^@# from the #z# axis.

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