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How did Niels Bohr describe electrons in his atomic model?
Their energies can have any values.
Their exact positions cannot be known.
They have high probability to be found in certain regions.
They orbit the central nucleus in discrete paths.

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They orbit the central nucleus in discrete paths.

Bohr proposed that electrons move in fixed, quantized orbits (stationary states) with discrete energy levels and jump between them by absorbing or emitting photons. Later quantum mechanics replaced this with probability distributions (orbitals).