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Ananya Shree

Class 11th
Chemistry
2 years ago

Why does carbon have a larger tendency of catenation than silicon although they have the same number of electrons?

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Muskan Anand

2 years ago

It's because the C-C bond is smaller but stronger (335 KJ mol) than the Si bond (225.7 KJ mol).

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