3.1-3.7 · Chemical bondingLesson 5 of 12
When the dot structure fails
Liquid oxygen sticks to a magnet and O=O predicts the opposite. Bonding and antibonding orbitals give bond order, magnetism, and molecules that cannot exist.
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