NEET-XII-Chemistry
07: The p-Block Elements
- #25Explain why inspite of nearly the same electronegativity, oxygen forms hydrogen bonding while chlorine does not.
Ans : Both chlorine and oxygen have almost the same electronegativity values, but chlorine rarely forms hydrogen bonding. This is because in comparison to chlorine, oxygen has a smaller size and as a result, a higher electron density per unit volume.