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Why has it been difficult to study the chemistry of radon?

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It is difficult to study the chemistry of radon because it is a radioactive substance having a half-life of only 3.82 days. Also, compounds of radon such as `RnF_(2)` have not been isolated. They have only been identified.
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  2. Balance the following equation: XeF6+H2OtoXeO2F2+HF

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  3. Why has it been difficult to study the chemistry of radon?

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  5. Why does the reactivity of nitrogen differ from phosphorus?

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  6. Discuss the trends in chemical reactivity of group 15 elements.

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  7. Why does NH3 form hydrogen bond but PH3 does not?

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  8. How is nitrogen prepared in the laboratory? Write the chemical equatio...

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  9. How is ammonia manufactured industrially?

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  11. Give the resonating structures of NO(2) and N(2)O(5).

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  12. The HNH angle value is higher than HPH, HAsH and HSbH angles. Why?

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  13. Why does R3P=0 exist but R3N=0 does not (R= alkyl group)?

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  14. Explain why NH(3) is basic while BiH(3) is only feebly basic ?

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  15. Nitrogen exists as diatomic molecule and phosphorus as P(4). Why ?

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  17. Why does nitrogen show catenation properties less than prosphorus.

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