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Q. From the given figure the van der Waal radius and covalent radius of the hydrogen atom respectively areChemistry Question Image

Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure

Solution:

Covalent radius is half of the distance between atoms in bonding state, while van der Waal radius is half of the distance between atoms in its non bonding state.