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The orbital for d-state electrons (actually the holes left behind by a departed electron) around a copper atom in a Cu2O cuprite material, visualized using x-ray diffraction techniques and electron-microscopy. Red designates a surplus of charge, blue a deficit.
This research is reported by Zuo et al., in Nature, 2 Sept 1999
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