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JEE Advanced levelSingle correct optionDifficulty 3 of 3pt104

In crystalline iodine the bond length is and the shortest contact between iodine atoms of different molecules is . Taking the van der Waals radius as half the non-bonded contact distance, the extent to which the two van der Waals spheres of bonded atoms overlap along the bond (i.e. ) is:

  1. A621
  2. B87
  3. C267
  4. D177

Answer: B

pm, so the spheres of two bonded atoms span pm if tangent. The bond length is only pm, so they overlap by pm.
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