According to the Schrödinger wave equation, Bohr's model of atomic orbitals is disproved and a new formalism that describes atomic orbitals is introduced.
It follows that the definition of atomic radius - "the distance between the center of the nucleus to the outermost orbit" - doesn't make sense, given that the new theory does not describe atomic orbitals as discrete entities in space.
If an orbital has no exact boundary, then what exactly is the definition of atomic radius and how can I calculate it?
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