Question

Ozone is a powerful oxidising agent in comparison to $O_2$ . Ozone is diamagnetic but $O_2$ is paramagnetic.

• A. If both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion
• B. If both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion
• C. If assertion is true but reason is false
• D. If both assertion and reason are false

Answer 1

Answer: (B)

If both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion

Answer 2

Ozone is a powerful oxidising agent next to fluorine. It is much stronger oxidising agent than oxygen because on easy decomposition it forms nascent oxygen. $O _{3} \longrightarrow O _{2}+[ O ]$ It is also true that $O _{3}$ diamagnetic while $O _{2}$ is paramagnetic.