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What is the C - O bond order in carbon dioxide?

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The bond order between carbon and oxygen in carbon dioxide (CO2) is two.

The Lewis structure of CO2 shows that each of the two double bonds (C=O) consists of one sigma bond and one pi bond. The bond order is the number of electron pairs being shared by a pair of atoms in a molecule, divided by the number of chemical bonds between the same pair of atoms. In CO2, there are two double bonds between carbon and oxygen, and each double bond has a bond order of 2. Therefore, the overall bond order between carbon and oxygen in CO2 is 2.

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