{"id":27198,"date":"2017-12-19T03:57:06","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T03:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=27198"},"modified":"2017-12-19T04:01:40","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T04:01:40","slug":"chemistry-what-are-degenerate-orbitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/chemistry-what-are-degenerate-orbitals\/","title":{"rendered":"Chemistry: what are degenerate orbitals?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Tutoring chemistry, you sometimes cover bonding. The tutor defines degenerate orbitals.<\/h1>\n<div style=\"background-color:#ffcdcd;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:monospace;font-size:130%;\">\n<span style=\"font-size:130%\">Degenerate:<\/span> being two separate objects with a single, identical value.<\/p>\n<p>The 1s orbitals of two separate hydrogen atoms are <em>degenerate<\/em> because, isolated from each other, they share a single, identical energy level.<\/p>\n<p>When the two hydrogen atoms bond together, their separate 1s orbitals merge into two hybrids, one of high energy, the other low. There are still two orbitals, but each of <strong>unique<\/strong> energy level, so the degeneracy is erased.<br \/>\n\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap\"><\/p>\n<p>Such is how I understand degenerate orbitals from the reading:)<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Mortimer, Charles E. <i>Chemistry,<\/i> 6th ed. Belmont: Wadsworth, 1986.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chemistry.stackexchange.com\/questions\/9951\/degenerate-orbitals\">chemistry.stackexchange.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring chemistry, you sometimes cover bonding. The tutor defines degenerate orbitals. Degenerate: being two separate objects with a single, identical value. The 1s orbitals of two separate hydrogen atoms are degenerate because, isolated from each other, they share a single, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/chemistry-what-are-degenerate-orbitals\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chemistry: what are degenerate orbitals?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2642],"class_list":["post-27198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","tag-what-are-degenerate-orbitals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27198"}],"version-history":[{"count":44,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27242,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27198\/revisions\/27242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}