stylistic:style_transfer, structural:scholar_edition
Bond energy

Except for diatomic molecules, the bond-dissociation energy differs from the bond energy. While the bond-dissociation energy is the energy of a single chemical bond, the bond energy is the average of all the bond-dissociation energies of the bonds of the same type for a given molecule. For a homoleptic compound EX, the E–X bond energy is (1/ n) multiplied by the enthalpy change of the reaction EX → E + n X. Average bond energies given in tables are the average values of the bond energies of a collection of species containing "typical" examples of the bond in question.