Question

Carbon tetrachlroide is a colourless liquid with a sweet smell that can be detected at low levels " carbon tetrachloride is not a good conductor of electricity" give reason to justify this statement?

Answer 1

Answer:

carbon tetra chloride does not has any electron vacant to conduct electricity through it

Answer 2

Carbon tetrachlroide is a colourless liquid with a sweet smell that can be detected at low levels " carbon tetrachloride is not a good conductor of electricity"

Explanation:

Carbon tetra chloride

It is a compound of carbon and chlorine .

1. It is colorless, volatile compound .
2. It is  very stable chlorinated hydrocarbon.
3. As mentioned above also it has sweet smell .
4. It is poor conductor of electricity

Any substance can be good or bad conductor depending upon whether it can conduct electricity or not .

The criteria behind conducting electricity is simple that is presence of free mobile electrons .

Any substance which has free mobile electrons will conduct electricity .

Now, in case of carbon tetra chloride , Carbon has 4 valence electrons and chlorine has 7 valence electrons .Now , when they combine they form covalent bond .That is they mutually share electrons in order to attain stable electronic configuration. After sharing , they are not left with any free electrons that can conduct electricity .

That is why , carbon tetra chloride is not a good conductor of electricity .

Uses of carbon tetra chloride

It is used as a solvent for oils and fats, as a refrigerant and as a dry-cleaning agent.