Question

The bond order is equal to the number of the bonding pairs of electrons in a covalent bond .
a.true or b.false ?

Answer 1

pasted from http://www.science.uwaterloo.ca/~cchieh/cact/c120/bondel.html
"The bond order is the number of electron pairs shared between two atoms in the formation of the bond. Bond order for C=C and O=O is 2."


So technically it is b: false
Why? If two atoms (the same for compound covalently bonded molecules that is more than two atoms) have 2 electrons that form one covalent bond it has order 1.
If they have two pairs of electrons to form 2 covalent bonds the bond order is 2 but we call them 2 bonds and not 1 bond of order 2.

But I think that the expected answer is the answer a.true