Sulphur has greater tendency for catenation than oxygen


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Why sulphur has great tendency for catenation than oxygen?

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 Oxygen is small in size and the lone pair of oxygen repel the bond pairs of O-O bond to larger extent than the lone pairs of sulphur in S-S bond. Sulphur naturally exists in nature as S8 molecules hence on heating this rings break and link jointly in to long chains making it have a greater tendency  for catenation than oxygen.

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