Draft:Spin Isomers

Spin isomers are types of hydrogen that differ in the angular velocity of the electron in a hydrogen atom about an axis that passes through the electron which spins like a rolling ball. There are 12 such spin isomers. That is because there can only be 2 magnitudes of angular velocity for an electron and, the electrons in a hydrogen atom also can only spin in 6 directions which are the +x, +y, +z, -x, -y, and -z directions. That is, the vector for the electron's angular velocity in a hydrogen atom can only point in the +x, +y, +z, -x, -y, and -z directions and, there are only two possible magnitudes for that vector. The spin isomers of hydrogen are named as follows: - 1_x+ (electron in hydrogen with angular momentum magnitude 1 spinning in +x direction) - 2_x+ (electron in hydrogen with angular momentum magnitude 2 spinning in +x direction) - 1_y+ (electron in hydrogen with angular momentum magnitude 1 spinning in +y direction) - 2_y+ (electron in hydrogen with angular momentum magnitude 2 spinning in +y direction) - 1_z+ (electron in hydrogen with angular momentum magnitude 1 spinning in +z direction) - 2_z+ (electron in hydrogen with angular momentum magnitude 2 spinning in +z direction) - 1_x- (electron in hydrogen with angular momentum magnitude 1 spinning in -x direction) - 2_x- (electron in hydrogen with angular momentum magnitude 2 spinning in -x direction) - 1_y- (electron in hydrogen with angular momentum magnitude 1 spinning in -y direction) - 2_y- (electron in hydrogen with angular momentum magnitude 2 spinning in -y direction) - 1_z- (electron in hydrogen with angular momentum magnitude 1 spinning in -z direction) - 2_z- (electron in hydrogen with angular momentum magnitude 2 spinning in -z direction) The hydrogen atoms in a hydrogen molecule are always of the same spin isomers however, that is not true for other molecules that contain multiple hydrogen atoms. Those atoms can be of different spin isomers.