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Thanks for the clarification EM. I didn't realize that was still valence bond theory. It feels different from the valence bond theory that was taught way back in O-chem, and I didn't realize it could be used in calculations for H2. On the subject of covalence, in inorganic compounds, the...

In "The Nature of the Chemical Bond," Pauling says that the ionic structures of H2 (H-(1)H+(2) and H+(1)H-(2)) each contribute about 2% to stabilization energy of the H2 molecular bond. I don't know enough about his calculations to know how those percentages were determined and if someone could...