Answer this question in 100-150 words.?
Explain the following:?
(ii) Carbon has a tendency to form long chain compounds but silicon does not. Why?

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Solution

Carbon can show catenation to large extent (from chains containing 20 or more carbon atoms) whereas silicon shows catenation to small extent only (form chains containing not more than 6 silicon atoms).This is because the property of catenation depends on the bond strength of atom-atom bond.The bond energy of C-C bond (348 kJ/mol) is more than Si-Si bond (225 kJ/mol) and thus catenation is shown by mainly carbon in the carbon family.

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