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In chemical bonding: Valence bond theory
…another (the technical term is overlap), and the electrons they contain pair up (so that their spins are ↓↑). The merging of orbitals gives rise to constructive interference—i.e., an enhancement of amplitude—between the wave functions in the areas where they overlap, and hence an enhanced amplitude results in the internuclear…
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