Why sulphur has great tendency for catenation than oxygen?
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In oxygen,the O-O bond is weaker due to high interelectronic repusion of non bonding electrons , owing to small bond length than sulphur. So sulphur has high catenatio. Than oxygen
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Oxygen is small in size and the lone pair of oxygen repel the bond pairs of O-O bond to larger extent than the lone pairs of sulphur in S-S bond. Sulphur naturally exists in nature as S8 molecules hence on heating this rings break and link jointly in to long chains making it have a greater tendency for catenation than oxygen.
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