Chemistry and Chemical Reactivity (9th Edition)

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Chapter 9 Bonding and Molecular Structure: Orbital Hybridization and Molecular Orbitals - Study Questions - Page 369f: 62

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Bond energy increases and bond length decreases with a bigger bond order. For the molecules cited, from tables 8.7 and 8.8, we can see that C$\equiv$C is shorter and has a bigger dissociation enthalpy than the other two, similarly to C=C in relation to C-C.
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