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The number of nodal planes present in $\sigma^{*} \mathrm{~s}$ antibonding orbitals is
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In an antibonding molecular orbital, most of the electron density is located away from the space between the nuclei, as a result of which there is a nodal plane ( a plane at which the electron density is zero) between the nuclei.
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