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Anyone know how to determine how many antibonding orbitals are on an atom?...Everything tells me to draw the diagram, but I have no idea how to do that...
How to Determine Number of Antibonding Orbitals on an Atom
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Bonding orbitals and antibonding orbitals are only relevant to molecules... not atoms. In MO theory two atomic orbitals mix to produce one bonding orbital and one antibonding orbital.
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