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Chemistry

Molecular Orbital Energy Diagram

σ / σ* splitting vs overlap
Molecular Orbital Energy Diagram

As two atoms approach, their atomic orbitals mix into bonding orbitals that sink and antibonding orbitals that rise — the split widening with overlap.

Computed & rendered in pure C# on the frozen OnlyCSharp 1.8 library — animation baked to GIF with the library's own Gif encoder (no GPU, no ffmpeg, no external packages).