Question

The Van Der Waal radius of oxygen nitrogen chlorine and fluorine is of the order??

Answer 1

The van Der Waal radius Is defined as one half the distance between the nuclei of two identical non bonded isolated atoms or two adjacent identical atoms belonging to two neighbouring molecules of an element in the solid state.

The van der waals radius of chlorine atom is 180 pm, and that of flourine is 147 pm and of oxygen is 152 pm .