Question

The ionosphere lies about 100 km above Earth's surface. This layer consists mostly of NO, O₂, and N₂, and photoionization creates NO⁺, O₂⁺, and N₂⁺.Use MO theory to compute the bond orders of the molecules and ions.

Bond order NO Answer Choices --> ["2.5", "3", "2", "1.5"]      

Bond order O₂      Answer Choices -->  ["3", "2.5", "2", "1", "1.5"]      

Bond order N₂ Answer Choices --> ["2.5", "1", "3", "2", "1.5"]      

Bond order NO⁺ Answer Choices --> ["2", "3", "2.5", "1.5"]      

Bond order O₂⁺ Answer Choices --> ["3", "2.5", "1.5", "2"]