NEET Chemistry The P Block Elements Online Test Set F

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Question 1

Question

Carbon and silicon belong to (IV) group. The maximum coordination number of carbon in commonly occurring compounds is 4, whereas that of silicon is 6. This is due to

Answer
More electropositive nature of silicon
Large size of silicon
Both (2) & (3)
Availability of low lying d-orbitals in silicon