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How do you use the periodic table of elements?

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Reference the periodic table to see what type of bonding is going on at different kinds of levels.

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How do you visualize different bonds?

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Use the bond's Lewis dot structure as a starting point. You can reference bonding diagrams, too.

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What is the bond order of He2?

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The bond order of He2 is 0. It has 2 antibonding electrons and 2 bonding electrons.

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What is the bond order of water?

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The bond order of water is one, so use the formula to determine it. There would six bonding electrons and four antibonding electrons.

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What is the formula of bond order?

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For finding bond order the general formula is (# of bonding electrons in mo) - (# of antibonding electrons in mo) / 2.

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What is the bond order of benzene?

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The bond order of benzene is 1.5. In this compound 6 pi electrons are shared by 6 carbon atoms; every carbon has half a pi bond and one sigma bond.

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Why is super oxide more paramagnetic than peroxide?

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Because the natural formula of the paramagnetic table states that super oxide can expand more at a time than peroxide.

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What is the bond order for Co32-?

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The bond order=total number of bonds/total number of sigma bonds. In co32- bond order will be. 4÷3 =1.33.

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What is the bond order of clO4-?

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Bond order will be apparent if you draw a valence structure of ClO4-. Hint: Cl has 7 valence electrons, O has 6 valence electrons (but some will be non-bonding i.e. lone pairs). O follows octet rules but Cl can be hypervalent.

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What is the bond order of CO?

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Bond order is 3, because if electrons are removed from bonding molecular orbitals or added to anti bonding molecular orbitals then the bond order decreased from 4 to 3.

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How do I find the bond order?

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You can find it by drawing its Lewis structure and checking the type of bond: single, double, triple.

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What is the bond order of N2?

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If you draw the Lewis structure of N2 you will get a triple bond, which indicates bond order. So N2 has a bond order numerically equal to 3.

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What is the bond order of H2O2?

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H202 has a bond order of 1, because there are only a single bond present in every atom.

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How do I find the bond order of an element?

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The formula is 3-(n/2) where n is the difference of total electrons from 14. For example, N2 having total electrons of 7+7=14, subtract 14 and you will get n. Substitute in the formula and you get the bond order as 3.

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What is the bond order of N2?

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The bond order of N2 is 3. It is due to presence of 3 covalent bonds between 2 nitrogen atoms in N2 molecule.

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How do I find the bond order using the MO formula?

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Bond order = [(Number of electrons in bonding molecules) - (Number of electrons in antibonding molecules)]/2.

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