The electronic configuration of nitrogen is 2, 5. How many electrons in the outer shell of the nitrogen atom are not involved in the formation of a nitrogen molecule.

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Nitrogen have 5 valence shell electron, out of them only 3 electrons are uses in bond formation and 2 s electrons remains same.

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(N_{2})

is written as

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Hence, the bond order of nitrogen molecule is:

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