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From: moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney)
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john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> writes:

>MM
>"You even do that in your spinny thing benzene animation. You show electrons 
>going from one atom to another. 

>>"In chemistry, delocalized electrons are electrons in a molecule, ion or 
>>solid metal that are not associated with a single atom or a covalent bond. "

>Yes.
>Michael.
>Electrons go from one atom to another.
>It's called a "bond".

The delocated pi electron bond in benzene is also called a "bond".

And there you go off and think of electrons as if they were the same as
macroscopic objects, thinking they have to physically move for some
unknown reason, and precess for what must be an even more bizarre unknown
reason.  No wonder you don't understand any of this.

Bonds, simply put, are when two (or more)* orbitals combine in such a
way as the electrons occupying them are in a lower energy state than in
the orbitals separately.

(*) In addition to the delocalized multiatom bonds that, oddly, you hate
so much, boron in particular likes to participate in 3 atom 3 orbital
bonds.

>You seem to think they come and go by
>magic.
>You are satisfied with that.
>Me, not so much.
>I don't believe in magic

I don't either.  No magic involved, so both of us should be happy.
It's just QM, not magic.