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What type of hybridization is needed to explain why ethyne, C2H2, is linear?
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What type of hybridization is needed to explain why ethyne, C2H2, is linear?

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When C-C is having a triple bond the hybridization is sp. But I am not sure how to relate that to the linear shape.

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