Sulphur shows more tendency for catenation than oxygen.why?
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because of compact nature of oxygen atom it has less negative electron gain enthalpy than sulphur and it is tend to high electronegativity
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Oxygen is small in size and the lone pair 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 is bond strength is more compared to O ---- O bond energy. Thus, sulphur shows more tendency for catenation than Oxygen.
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