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IN the development of the resonating-valence-bond theory of metals, it has become evident that the characteristic structural feature of metals is the possession by each atom or each of many atoms in the metallic phase of an extra orbital (the ‘metallic orbital'), in addition to the orbitals normally occupied by electrons. This metallic orbital permits the unsynchronized resonance of electron-pair bonds from one interatomic position to another by the jump of one electron from an atom to an adjacent atom, leading to great stabilization of the metal by resonance energy, and to the characteristic metallic properties.
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PAULING, L. The Metallic State. Nature 161, 1019–1020 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/1611019b0
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