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Use the trapezium's printed axes, with principal axis in its plane and perpendicular to the plane. For either site pair or , the group representation has characters of a representation in the order : identity and the molecular-plane mirror fix both s orbitals, while the other two operations exchange them. The character inner products give in the C2v molecular point group.

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