'delocalized'

[Cavalli_1H]

what does it mean when resonance structures are 'delocalized'? I keep hearing the word thrown around and I just need some clarification on what it means.

[Megan Cao 1I]

delocalized electrons are electrons in a molecule that aren't associated with a single atom or a covalent bond. this means they can switch between bonds/atoms like when we were looking at the resonance structures and he said that the molecule could be either or versions.

[Juliet Stephenson 4E]

I always interpret this to mean that the electrons have a less precise location. Because they have multiple "possible" locations, we can't assign them a particular place in the octet or to a particular bond, so they are delocalized. The effect of this is that they create more stable bonds.

[Timmy Nguyen Dis 1I]

Since we don't know where electrons are exactly due to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, when electrons are "delocalized" they are spread out across the entire molecule.

[Kaylee Clarke 1G]

'Delocalized' electrons are electrons that have more fluidity in the atom because they are not bonded and are in different positions in a set of resonance structures.