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Carbon has four electrons in its valence shell. Which type of compounds can be formed by carbon atom and why ? Give any one example of such compounds.

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ICSE-CHEMICAL BONDING AND MOLECULAR STRUCTURE-SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS
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  2. What do you understand by bond length? On what factors does it depend?

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  9. Why is ionic bond regarded as an extreme case of a polar covalent bond...

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  11. Discuss the formation of MgO.

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  12. Discuss the factors which govern the formation of an ionic bond.

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  13. What do you understand by variable electrovalency? Give atleast two ex...

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  14. What is inert pair effect? How does it account for the variable electr...

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  15. What is Born-Haber cycle? Explain with an example.

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  16. What are the factors which favour the formation of a covalent bond? Ex...

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  18. What are Sidgwick's views regarding the failure of the octet rule?

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  19. State and explain Fajan's rules.

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  20. Define dipole moment. How is it related to the molecular structure?

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