A microstate is a specific combination/orientation of items. Usually in chemistry we're talking about this for electrons, nuclei, or whole molecules, but let's use spheres and boxes for now. a. If you have 6 spheres and need to sort them into 2 boxes in such a way that you have 2 spheres in the first box and 4 spheres in the second box, what is the number of ways you can do that? (This is the microstate!)