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hydrocarbon
Structure and bonding
…and is consistent with the bond order of 1.5 predicted by resonance theory. (Bond order is an index of bond strength. A bond order of 1 indicates that a single σ bond exists between two atoms, and a bond order of 2 indicates the presence of one σ and one…
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…and is consistent with the bond order of 1.5 predicted by resonance theory. (Bond order is an index of bond strength. A bond order of 1 indicates that a single σ bond exists between two atoms, and a bond order of 2 indicates the presence of one σ and one…
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