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Carbon and silicon belong to group `IV`. The maximum coordination number of carbon in commonly occuring compounds is four whereas that of silicon is six. This is due to

A

Large size of silicon

B

More electropositive nature of silicon

C

Availability of low lying d-orbitals in silicon

D

Both (a) and (c)

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C
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