The boiling point of some compounds of hydrogen with some elements in groups 4 and 6 of the periodic table are given below.

      

The boiling point of some compounds of hydrogen with some elements in groups 4 and 6 of the periodic table are given below.
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a) Which of the compounds CH4 and SiH4 has stronger intermolecular forces?
b) Explain why the boiling points of H2O and H2S show different trends from that of CH4 and SiH4

  

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John
a) SiH4: This is because it has a higher boiling point.

b) There’s no hydrogen bonding in CH4 and SiH4 while the hydrogen bond in
H2O is stronger than the van der waal’s forces in H2S.

johnmulu answered the question on April 10, 2017 at 09:45


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