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Which observation about methane (ch4) can be explained using the orbital hybridization theory?

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All 4 C-H bonds are identical.

Hybridisation or hybridization is the idea of blending atomic orbitals into new hybrid orbitals, with various energies, shapes, and so on, than the component atomic orbitals, appropriate for the matching of electrons to make chemical bonds in valence bond theory.
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