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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.

• 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.

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

• 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• 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.

• 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.

• Bohr radiusNarrower topic: The Bohr radius supplies the natural length unit for hydrogenic orbitals.

• Carbon–fluorine bondNarrower topic: Orbital overlap provides the quantum-mechanical basis for the C–F sigma bond.

• Periodic table blocksNarrower topic: Each block is named for the orbital type that receives the differentiating electron.

• 4f electronNarrower topic: A 4f electron is defined by occupying a particular kind of atomic orbital.

• Rydberg atomNarrower topic: A Rydberg atom's defining large size comes from its excited electron's orbital.

• Auger effectNarrower topic: Orbital energies and occupancies define the states participating in Auger transitions.

• Double bond ruleNarrower topic: Orbital shape and extension determine how effectively atoms can form multiple bonds.

• Exotic atomNarrower topic: Exotic particles occupy orbital states whose energies differ from ordinary electron states.

• Hund's rule of maximum multiplicityNarrower topic: The rule applies to orbitals within the same subshell.

• Orbital hybridisationNarrower topic: Hybridisation combines atomic orbitals on the same atom.