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The law of multiple proportion is illustrated by the two compounds a) Sulphur dioxide and Sulphur trioxide :

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Oxygen has no d-orbital. That is why it cannot expand its co-ordination number beyond two. Other members of oxygen family have vacant d-orbitals. So that other members show additional covalency of +4 and +6.
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