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Q.Many of the organic compounds are inflammable because of its:

(a) Vander Waal's force
(b) Co-ordinate nature
(c) Covalent nature
(d) Ionic nature
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Organic compounds are inflammable mainly because of their covalent nature.

Almost all organic compounds are built from carbon bonded covalently to hydrogen and other non-metals. Covalent bonds are formed by sharing of electron pairs, giving molecules with low melting and boiling points, weak intermolecular (van der Waals) forces, and molecular (not ionic-lattice) structure. Because the C-H/C-C bonds are of moderate strength and the molecules are volatile, they vaporise easily and react rapidly and exothermically with atmospheric oxygen (combustion), releasing heat, CO2 and H2O. Ionic compounds (option d), by contrast, have very high lattice energies, do not vaporise easily, and generally do not burn in this way. Van der Waals forces (option a) only d …

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