How can you find a sigma bond in an atom?

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Truong-Son N.
Jul 28, 2016

You can't. Atoms don't have sigma bonds. They are alone.

Sigma bonds require head-on overlap of 2 atomic orbitals, and they must be from different atoms.

These atoms might be the same kind of element, but there must be at least two atoms for there to be a single bond, and thus, a sigma bond.

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