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Bond-valence−bond-length curve illustrating the distortion theorem by showing how the average bond length increases from 2.56 to 2.62 Å as the valences of two hypothetical bonds change from 0.2 vu to 0.1 and 0.3 vu, that is, at constant bond valence sum.