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Mention any two reasons for the anomalous behaviour of oxygen.

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Reasons for the anomalous behavior of oxygen are given below.
1) Oxygen is small in size.
2) Oxygen has high electronegativity.
3) The valence shell of oxygen lacks vacant d orbitals.

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