What is bond order?

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Bond order is defined as half the difference between the number of electrons in bonding molecular orbital $(N_{b})$ and the number of electrons in the antibonding molecular orbitals $(N_{a})$ .

i.e., Bond order $= \frac{1}{2} (N_{b} - N_{a})$

Number of covalent bond in a molecule is also known as bond order.

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