NEET 2025 — Chemistry solution

NEET2025Chemistry

Given below are two statements:

Statement I: Like nitrogen that can form ammonia, arsenic can form arsine.

Statement II: Antimony cannot form antimony pentoxide.

In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

A
Both Statement I and Statement II are correct
B
Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect
C
Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect
D
Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct

Solution

Statement I is correct: nitrogen forms NH $_{3}$ (ammonia), and arsenic forms AsH $_{3}$ (arsine). Both are Group-15 hydrides.

Statement II is incorrect: all Group-15 elements (N, P, As, Sb, Bi) form pentoxides of the type E $_{2}$ O $_{5}$ . Antimony does form Sb $_{2}$ O $_{5}$ (antimony pentoxide).

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