JEE Main Chemistry question

Chemistry The p-Block Elements JEE Main

**Assertion:** is covalent in the gaseous and liquid states but ionic in the solid state. **Reason:** in the solid state consists of the tetrahedral cation and the octahedral anion.

(A)Assertion is True, Reason is True; Reason is correct explanation for AssertionCorrect
(B)Assertion is True, Reason is True; Reason is not correct explanation for Assertion
(C)Assertion is True, Reason is False
(D)Assertion is False, Reason is True

Answer: (A)

Solution

In the gas/liquid phase, exists as the discrete, covalent trigonal-bipyramidal molecule; in the solid state it instead rearranges into an ionic lattice of

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