Is sp hybridized, in general, less stable than say sp2 or sp3? I know that the sp has a shorter bond length than sp3 and that the bonds involved in sp are stronger than the sp3 but I am not 100% sure how that relates to stability. I was thinking that the single bonds are more stable because they have less energy in the bonds and thus sp3 will generally be more stable than sp, is that right? (I would not directly relate energy to the hybridization model, except for the orbital holding a lone electron pair. - GS).