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

• 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.

• 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Wave mechanicsBroader topic: Orbitals are concrete wave-mechanical solutions used to describe atomic electrons.

• Linear combination of atomic orbitalsBroader topic: These are the basis functions whose weighted sum forms an LCAO molecular orbital.

• Atomic and molecular structureBroader topic: Orbitals specify the allowed electron distributions that underlie atomic structure.

• Atomic propertiesBroader topic: Orbitals provide the framework for describing electron structure and atomic size.