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Aluminium chloride exists as a dime. Give reasons .

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Solution :In `AlCl_(3)`, Al hasonly six electrons in the valence shell. Therefore it needs two moreelectrons to completeits octet.To do so, it accepta lone pairof electronsfrom theCl ATOM of another `AlCl_(3)` moleculeas shown. As a RESULT , `AlCl_(3)` exiss as a DIMER.


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