Assertion: CCl4 is a non-polar compound. Reason: The dipole moments are cancelled out.
A
Both Assertion and Reason are correct and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion
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B
Both Assertion and Reason are correct and Reason is not the correct explanation of Assertion
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C
Assertion is
correct but Reason is not correct
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D
Assertion is
not correct but Reason is correct
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E
Both the Assertion and Reason are not correct
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Solution
The correct option is A
Both Assertion and Reason are correct and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion
The 4C−Cl bonds in CCl4 are oriented to point at the vertices of a
regular tetrahedron and they cancel each other out exactly, So, CCl4 has
no dipole moment.