(a) What is meant by the term polarizability? (b)Which of the following atoms would you expect to...

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(a) What is meant by the term polarizability?
(b)Which of the following atoms would you expect to be most polarizable: N, P, As, Sb? Explain.
(c) Put the following molecules in order of increasing polarizability: GeCl4, CH4, SiCl4, SiH4, and GeBr4.
(d) Predict the order of boiling points of the substances in part (c)?
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Chemistry The Central Science

ISBN: 978-0321696724

12th edition

Authors: Theodore Brown, Eugene LeMay, Bruce Bursten, Catherine Murphy, Patrick Woodward

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