Orbital overlap
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Orbital overlap is a concept in the molecular orbital description of chemical bonding. In the simplest terms, a covalent bond can only form between two atoms if there is significant overlap between atomic orbitals on the atoms.
Orbital overlap can be expressed in qualitative terms through empirical rules, or quantitatively through overlap integrals Sab (where a and b represent atomic orbitals).
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