molecular orbital

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molecular orbital (plural molecular orbitals)

  1. (physical chemistry, quantum mechanics) The quantum mechanical behavior of an electron in a molecule describing the probability of the electron's particular position and energy; approximated by a linear combination of atomic orbitals.

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