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A basis transformation among atomic orbitals used to construct directional localized orbitals; it is a model choice rather than a separately observed process.
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Hybridization is a localized orbital model used to rationalize selected molecular geometries and bonding patterns; it is not a unique observable decomposition of an exact wavefunction.
The target is a model, idealization, restricted ansatz, approximation scheme, phenomenological fit, or historical representation used for the source system or theory. It need not have a universal small error parameter and is not thereby a controlled limit or effective theory. The edge label and detail must identify the precise status.
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Hybrid orbitals are a convenient localized basis within many valence-bond and qualitative bonding models.
The source supplies a substantive formal ingredient, dynamical sector, law, field content, or mechanism of the target theoretical framework.
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