‘X’ melts at low temperature and is a bad conductor of electricity in both liquid and solid state. X is :

mercury

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silicon carbide

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zinc sulphide

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carbon tetrachloride

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Solution

The correct option is D carbon tetrachloride
$C C l_{4}$ is non polar and does not conduct in either solid or liquid state.

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