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What is the difference between the terms orbit and orbital?

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Orbit is a definite circular path along which electron was supposed to revolve around nucleus in Rutherford's and Bohr's atomic models. Orbital is the region of space around nucleus of an atom in which the probability of finding the electron is maximum.

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