Explain briefly, why :
Hydrazine is unstable

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Solution

In hydrazine, there is N−N single bond with lone pair of electrons on each atom. Due to small size of nitrogen, there is considerable repulsion between these non bonding electrons.
So this bond is very weak i.e. not stable.

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