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  2. Tight binding - Wikipedia

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    The model gives good qualitative results in many cases and can be combined with other models that give better results where the tight-binding model fails. Though the tight-binding model is a one-electron model, the model also provides a basis for more advanced calculations like the calculation of surface states and application to various kinds ...

  3. Electromagnetic absorption by water - Wikipedia

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    In the atmospheric window between approximately 8000 and 14000 nm, in the far-infrared spectrum, carbon dioxide and water absorption is weak. [29] This window allows most of the thermal radiation in this band to be radiated out to space directly from the Earth's surface.

  4. Molecular orbital diagram - Wikipedia

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    The only way to accomplish this is by occupying both the bonding and antibonding orbitals with two electrons, which reduces the bond order ((2−2)/2) to zero and cancels the net energy stabilization. However, by removing one electron from dihelium, the stable gas-phase species He + 2 ion is formed with bond order 1/2.

  5. Molecular orbital theory - Wikipedia

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    4, the eight valence electrons are found in four MOs that are spread out over all five atoms. It is possible to transform the MOs into four localized sp 3 orbitals. Linus Pauling, in 1931, hybridized the carbon 2s and 2p orbitals so that they pointed directly at the hydrogen 1s basis functions and featured

  6. VSEPR theory - Wikipedia

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    Valence shell electron pair repulsion (VSEPR) theory (/ ˈ v ɛ s p ər, v ə ˈ s ɛ p ər / VESP-ər, [1]: 410 və-SEP-ər [2]) is a model used in chemistry to predict the geometry of individual molecules from the number of electron pairs surrounding their central atoms. [3]

  7. Valence bond theory - Wikipedia

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    Hybridization is a model that describes how atomic orbitals combine to form new orbitals that better match the geometry of molecules. Atomic orbitals that are similar in energy combine to make hybrid orbitals. For example, the carbon in methane (CH 4) undergoes sp 3 hybridization to form four equivalent orbitals, resulting in a tetrahedral shape.

  8. Lewis structure - Wikipedia

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    Count valence electrons. Nitrogen has 5 valence electrons; each oxygen has 6, for a total of (6 × 2) + 5 = 17. The ion has a charge of −1, which indicates an extra electron, so the total number of electrons is 18. Connect the atoms by single bonds. Each oxygen must be bonded to the nitrogen, which uses four electrons—two in each bond.

  9. Valence (chemistry) - Wikipedia

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    The valence is the combining capacity of an atom of a given element, determined by the number of hydrogen atoms that it combines with. In methane, carbon has a valence of 4; in ammonia, nitrogen has a valence of 3; in water, oxygen has a valence of 2; and in hydrogen chloride, chlorine has a valence of 1.