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Sulphur has greater tendency for catenation than oxygen why multiple bonds

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Answered by nimal1
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Oxygen is small in size and the lone pairs on oxygen repel the bond pairs of O-O bond to larger extent than the lone pairs on sulphur in S-S bond.

The S-S bond energy 213 k J/mol therefore bond strength is more compared to O-O bond energy 138 k J/mol. Sulphur naturally 

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