Question

Why silicon doesn't has the property to make long chains whereas carbon has ?

Answer 1

silicon lies below CARBON in the periodic table that is why it form bonds of low bond energy and low bond length bonds. Also CARBON is tetravalent as well as tetrahaedral and it's bonds require more energy to break and are much stronger. but silicon forms bonds which are easy to break and not strong so with some bonds due to its lower brake energy it hardly for.s bonds with all of the elements in the periodic table



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