Posted by phys on Thursday, April 8, 2010 at 1:14am.
Here is a site that talks about bond orders and how they are sometimes averages and not always whole numbers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bond_order
Here is a site that gives a couple of resonance structures for the cyanate ion. You can figure the average from this.
http://tannerm.com/lewis.htm
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