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Chemistry · Glossary

What is Fragments?

Also known as: fragment · fragment orbital

Definition 15.1 University Chemistry — Year 2 · Chapter 15 — Fragment Orbitals and Polyatomic Molecules

A fragment is a group of atoms of a molecule considered on its own (an atom, a pair of hydrogens, a CHX2\ce{CH2} group), and a fragment orbital one of its orbitals. The orbitals of the molecule are built by letting the orbitals of two fragments interact, two by two, as the atomic orbitals of a diatomic molecule.

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