We modified Muliken's overlap population n(A, B)=

and obtained an experiential formula N(A,B)=N
A(A,B)+N
B(A,B) of judging bond strength, where N
A(A, B)={Z
A/N
A2
, N
B(A, B)=Z
B/N
B2
. Twenty-eight bonds calculated by IEHMmethod and 11 monohydrides calculated by using
6-31G
** basis sets at Hartree-Fock level, electronic correlation effects are also considered through MP
2/6-31G
**, were used to verify our experiential formula. Compared with the judgment of chemical bond strength by means of Muliken's overlap population, our experiential formula has a more obvious improvement as a judgment of bond strength than Muliken's overlap population. As a judgment of chemical bond strength between atoms in molecules, the experiential formula has conquered some limitations of Muliken's overlap population, and accorded with the experimental results.