"molecular orbital" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: molecular orbitals [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} 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. Wikipedia link: molecular orbital Tags: physical Categories (topical): Physical chemistry, Quantum mechanics Translations (molecular orbital): 分子軌道 (Chinese Mandarin), 分子轨道 (fēnzǐ guǐdào) (Chinese Mandarin), Molekülorbital [neuter] (German), orbital molekul (Indonesian), 分子軌道 (bunshikidō) (alt: ぶんしきどう) (Japanese), молекулалық орбиталь (english: molekulalyq orbital) (Kazakh)

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