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antibonding orbital   molecular orbital located outside of the region between two nuclei; electrons in an antibonding orbital destabilize the molecule  
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bond order   number of pairs of electrons between two atoms; it can be found by the number of bonds in a Lewis structure or by the difference between the number of bonding and antibonding electrons divided by two  
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bonding orbital   molecular orbital located between two nuclei; electrons in a bonding orbital stabilize a molecule  
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degenerate orbitals   orbitals that have the same energy  
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diamagnetism   phenomenon in which a material is not magnetic itself but is repelled by a magnetic field; it occurs when there are only paired electrons present  
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homonuclear diatomic molecule   molecule consisting of two identical atoms  
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hybrid orbital   orbital created by combining atomic orbitals on a central atom  
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hybridization   model that describes the changes in the atomic orbitals of an atom when it forms a covalent compound  
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linear combination of atomic orbitals   technique for combining atomic orbitals to create molecular orbitals  
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molecular orbital   region of space in which an electron has a high probability of being found in a molecule  
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molecular orbital diagram   visual representation of the relative energy levels of molecular orbitals  
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molecular orbital theory   model that describes the behavior of electrons delocalized throughout a molecule in terms of the combination of atomic wave functions  
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node   plane separating different lobes of orbitals, where the probability of finding an electron is zero  
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overlap   coexistence of orbitals from two different atoms sharing the same region of space, leading to the formation of a covalent bond  
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paramagnetism   phenomenon in which a material is not magnetic itself but is attracted to a magnetic field; it occurs when there are unpaired electrons present  
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pi bond (π bond)   covalent bond formed by side-by-side overlap of atomic orbitals; the electron density is found on opposite sides of the internuclear axis  
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s-p mixing   change that causes σp orbitals to be less stable than πp orbitals due to the mixing of s and p-based molecular orbitals of similar energies.  
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sigma bond (σ bond)   covalent bond formed by overlap of atomic orbitals along the internuclear axis  
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sp hybrid orbital   one of a set of two orbitals with a linear arrangement that results from combining one s and one p orbital  
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sp2 hybrid orbital   one of a set of three orbitals with a trigonal planar arrangement that results from combining one s and two p orbitals  
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sp3 hybrid orbital   one of a set of four orbitals with a tetrahedral arrangement that results from combining one s and three p orbitals  
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sp3d hybrid orbital   one of a set of five orbitals with a trigonal bipyramidal arrangement that results from combining one s, three p, and one d orbital  
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sp3d2 hybrid orbital   one of a set of six orbitals with an octahedral arrangement that results from combining one s, three p, and two d orbitals  
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valence bond theory   description of bonding that involves atomic orbitals overlapping to form σ or π bonds, within which pairs of electrons are shared  
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π bonding orbital   molecular orbital formed by side-by-side overlap of atomic orbitals, in which the electron density is found on opposite sides of the internuclear axis  
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π* bonding orbital   antibonding molecular orbital formed by out of phase side-by-side overlap of atomic orbitals, in which the electron density is found on both sides of the internuclear axis, and there is a node between the nuclei  
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σ bonding orbital   molecular orbital in which the electron density is found along the axis of the bond  
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σ* bonding orbital   antibonding molecular orbital formed by out-of-phase overlap of atomic orbital along the axis of the bond, generating a node between the nuclei  
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