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The other weird thing about bonds is that chemists more-or-less universally
speak in terms of the bond energy (or "heat of formation") as a positive
number, even though it makes a negative contribution to the energy content
of the sample. Let's be clear: A stronger bond means a more-negative (or
less-positive) energy content. This leads to confusion because in almost
any other context people would talk about the _energy content_ directly (for
instance, as we saw in connection with the Bernoulli equation).