Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Bond Order

          Bond order is the number of chemical bonds between a pairs of atom. In a covalent bond between two atoms, an single bond has a bond order of one, a double bond has a bond order of two, a triple bond has a bond order of  3 and so on.
Example :

  • Determine the bond order of hydrogen gas ; H2
  • H - H   Bond order is one.

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