Answer:
Silicon atoms have 14 protons.
Silicon atoms will react with other atoms in order to gain stability.
Silicon atoms have 14 electrons.
Yasir wanted to study the relationship between sleep and room color. So he has done all the background study required on the topic and arrived at a hypothesis that people fall asleep more rapidly in a room painted in blue color than in a room painted yellow. Yasir inquired several people which color they like better -yellow or blue- and used their feedback to decide whether his hypothesis was correct. There was no experiment conducted to observe the effect of a room color on sleep and the variables to be tested in the experiment were not properly identified.
Therefore, the correct answer would be,
An experiment that directly tests the hypothesis
Variables to be tested by an experiment
Answer:
XY4Z2 ----- square planar
XY5Z ------- square pyramidal
XY2Z----- bent < 120°
XY2Z3 ----- Linear
XY4Z ---- see saw
XY2Z2 ----- bent <109°
XY3Z2 ----- T shaped
XY3Z ----- Trigonal pyramidal
Explanation:
The valence shell electron pair repulsion theory ( VSEPR) gives the description of molecular geometry based on the relative number of electron pairs present in the molecule.
However, electron pairs repel each other, the repulsion between two lone pairs is greater than the repulsion between a lone pair and a bond pair which is also greater than the repulsion between two lone pairs.
The presence of lone pairs distort the bond angle and molecular geometry from the expected geometry based on VSEPR theory. Hence, in the presence of lone pairs of electron, the observed molecular geometry may be different from that predicted on the basis of the VSEPR theory, the bond angles also differ slightly or widely depending on the number of lone pairs present.
All the molecules in the question possess lone pairs, the number of electron pairs do not correspond to the observed molecular shape or geometry due to lone pair repulsion. Usually, the molecular geometry deals more with the arrangement of bonded atoms in the molecule.
