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Bond order depends on the number of bonding and anti-bonding orbitals. The bond order can never have:

A
A negative value
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An integral value
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Assume any positive, or an integral, or a fractional value including zero
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a non zero value
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Solution

The correct option is A A negative value
We know,
Bond order = 12 (number of bonding electron(s) - number of anti-bonding electron(s))

Since the number of anti-bonding electrons can never be greater than the number of bonding electrons, the bond order can never be negative.

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