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Did you mean "why do the arrows point in different directions?" if so, the answer is that, since electrons are both negatively charged, the will repel from each other, causing one to go in one direction, and the other opposite that. Think "Pauli exclusion principle" which states "no two electrons in the same atom can be in the same quantum state." This 'state' includes spin, and the arrows represent the spin of the electron orbit.

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