1. Sulfur is directly below oxygen in the periodic table, butelementally they are very different with oxygen existing as adiatomic gas and sulfur as a S₈ molecularsolid.

1. Describe the bonding for elemental oxygen and elementalsulfur.
2. Using bond dissociation energy, explain why sulfur is notdiatomic, but oxygen is.
3. Why is the bonding so different for sulfur than foroxygen?
4. Oxygen combines with F₂ to formOF₂ as the only product, but sulfur can formSF₂, SF₄, andSF₆. Explain

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