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What is the bond order of CO2?


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Bond Order

  • “In the Lewis description of covalent bond, the Bond Order is given by the number of bonds between the two atoms in a molecule”.
  • The mathematical formula for bond order is as follows,
  • Bondorder(B.O.)=TotalnumberofbondsNumberofsigmabonds

Calculation of bond order of CO2

Bondorder(B.O.)=TotalnumberofbondsNumberofsigmabonds=42=2


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