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Give reason oxygen is a gas but sulphur is a solid ?

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The intermolecular forces in oxygen are weak van der Waals forces, which causes it to exist as gas while sulphur form strong $S = S$ double bonds hence exist as a puckered structure held together by strong covalent bonds and exist as a polyatomic molecule, hence exists as a solid.

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