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Can the percent s and p character in a hybrid orbital be measured experimentally?
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It's important to realize that hybridization is part of the valence bond theory. It is not something that is directly observed in an experiment. You can explain a structure measured experimentally using hybridization, but you can't directly measure hybridization. See another question for a specific example of this.
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