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Why does nitrogen not show allotropy?​

User Daniel Blythe
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Nitrogen does not show allotropy because of its small size and high electronegativity. The single N-N bond is weaker than P-P bond because of high inter electronic repulsions among non-bonding electrons due to the small bond distance. Hence it does not show allotropy.

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The nitrogen atom has short inter-bond distance, hence highly electronegative in terms of magnitude. This creates no relation in energy varieties hence no allotropes formed.

Nitrogen atom is also very small.

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