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The 69 pages that link to Atomic orbital, each with the reason it gives.

• Periodic tableNarrower topic: Orbital filling underlies the table's blocks and period lengths.

• Covalent bondBroader topic: Atomic orbitals overlap to form many covalent bonds.

• ElectronBroader topic: Orbitals describe electron states without treating them as planetary paths.

• Electron configurationBroader topic: Orbitals are the specific states whose electron occupancies configurations record.

• Chemical bondRelated: Orbital shapes and energies constrain how atoms share or redistribute electrons.

• Valence electronNarrower topic: Valence electrons occupy orbitals in an atom’s outer shell.

• Molecular orbital theoryNarrower topic: Atomic orbitals are the starting functions used to construct molecular orbitals.

• Bohr modelCompared with: Orbitals are probability distributions, unlike the model’s definite electron paths.

• Molecular orbitalNarrower topic: Atomic orbitals are the functions combined to form molecular orbitals.

• Hydrogen atomBroader topic: Hydrogen’s electron occupies orbitals such as the 1s ground state.

• Quantum numberBroader topic: Its shape and energy are classified using principal, angular-momentum, and magnetic quantum numbers.

• Ionization energyRelated: An electron's orbital determines its energy and how strongly it is bound.

• X-rayRelated: Transitions between inner atomic orbitals can produce characteristic X-ray photons.

• Pi bondNarrower topic: Pi bonding depends on the shapes and orientations of orbitals.

• Valence bond theoryNarrower topic: Valence bond theory builds bonds from the overlap of these atomic electron states.

• Electron shellBroader topic: A shell groups orbitals with the same principal quantum number.

• IonizationRelated: An electron's orbital and binding energy affect how much energy ionization requires.

• Aufbau principleNarrower topic: The principle is a prescription for ordering these states by energy.

• WavefunctionBroader topic: Orbital shapes visualize spatial features of atomic wavefunctions.

• Fine structureNarrower topic: Orbital angular momentum helps determine which fine-structure sublevels occur.

• PhotoionizationRelated: The initial orbital helps determine the electron's binding energy and emission pattern.

• Wolfgang PauliRelated: Orbital occupancy follows from Pauli’s rule, shaping atomic structure and chemistry.

• Electron affinityBroader topic: The added electron occupies an orbital whose energy and shape affect the energy change.

• Atomic spectroscopyRelated: Electron orbitals help determine atomic energy levels and spectral transitions.

• Ligand field theoryNarrower topic: Metal d orbitals are the starting states whose energies and shapes the theory tracks.

• Orbital angular momentumBroader topic: Its angular shape and orbital quantum number encode orbital angular momentum.

• Hyperfine structureRelated: The electron’s distribution near the nucleus affects the magnetic interaction and its hyperfine shift.

• MoleculeRelated: Orbital overlap helps explain how covalent bonds form.

• Sigma bondNarrower topic: Sigma bonding depends on the shapes and orientations of atomic orbitals.

• AtomBroader topic: Orbitals describe electron arrangements more accurately than fixed planetary paths.

• Atomic emission spectrumRelated: Orbital states help determine atomic energy levels and allowed transitions.

• Atomic theoryRelated: Orbitals replace fixed electron trajectories in the modern model of the atom.

• Carbon–carbon bondRelated: Orbital overlap provides the basis for describing carbon–carbon covalent bonds.

• Coordinate covalent bondNarrower topic: Donor and acceptor orbitals provide the framework for describing electron-pair donation.

• Atomic radiusBroader topic: Orbital probability distributions have no sharp outer edge, limiting any literal atomic boundary.

• Effective nuclear chargeNarrower topic: Effective charge shapes orbital energies and radial distributions.

• Principal quantum numberRelated: The principal quantum number helps set an orbital’s characteristic size and energy.

• Relativistic effectNarrower topic: Relativistic effects change the energies and spatial distributions of atomic orbitals.

• Atomic energy levelRelated: Orbitals help specify electronic states and the energies available to electrons.

• Hybrid orbitalNarrower topic: Hybrid orbitals are formed from atomic orbitals belonging to the same atom.

• Tight-binding modelNarrower topic: Atomic orbitals supply the localized basis functions combined in the model.

• Energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopyNarrower topic: The energies of occupied and vacant orbitals determine the X-ray transition energies measured by EDS.

• Electronic transitionBroader topic: Atomic orbitals label many of the states connected by atomic transitions.

• Magnetic quantum numberRelated: The magnetic quantum number distinguishes orbital states within a subshell.

• Atomic physicsBroader topic: Orbitals specify the allowed electron states within atomic structure.

• Bent's ruleNarrower topic: Hybrid orbitals are constructed from atomic orbitals.

• p orbitalNarrower topic: A p orbital is one shape within the broader family of atomic orbitals.

• 4f orbitalNarrower topic: The 4f orbital is one specific kind of atomic orbital.

• d-blockNarrower topic: D subshells are orbitals that receive the differentiating electron in this block.

• sp² hybridizationNarrower topic: Hybridization combines atomic orbitals on a single atom.