Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

molecular orbital

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.48 in modern English

Syllables: molec-u-lar or-bital
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Inflected Forms

molecular orbitals (plural)

Questions

What does molecular orbital mean?: 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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