December 2011
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Elements of this group are called Pnicogens. (Greek, pnigmos-suffocation, many compounds of the group elements have suffocating oduour, so this name). There is a transition from non-metal to metal.
Nitrogen and Bi do not show allotropy whereas P, As and Sb have allotropes.
Table 16.1
Note:
N 2s22p3 i.e., three unpaired electrons in p — orbitals. There are one σ and two π bonds in N2. Nitrogen is sp-hybridized.
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