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What is the color of N2O4????????????????????????????????????????????!????!!!!!!!!!!!??????????????????

What is the color of N2O4????????????????????????????????????????????!????!!!!!!!!!!!??????????????????

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Shivangi Khatter
askIITians Faculty 468 Points
5 years ago
yellow
Agrata Singh
208 Points
5 years ago

Nitrogen dioxide is a reddish brown gas while N2O4 is colorless. The reason for this is that NO2 has an odd electron due to which it pairs up with another molecule and hence finally becomes diamagnetic. Only paramagnetic species show color diamagnetic are color less 

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