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Why Noble gases have very low boiling points ?

Noble gases being monoatomic have no interatomic forces except weak London dispersion force(which exist between two Noble atom e.g xe--xe when these are present near to each other), therefore they convert to Vapour at very low temperature. Hence they have low boiling points.

Why Hydrogen sulphide(H2S) is less acidic than Hydrogen Telluride( H2Te) ?

In group-16 down the group acidic character increases because down the group bond length between Hydrogen & group-16 element increase(due to large size of atoms)so bond strength decreases.Therefore H+ ion easily move from H2Te as compared to H2S,hence H2Te is more acidic than H2S.[A acid is said to be strong acid if it easily give H+ ion]

why does Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) dimerise ?

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Answer:- NO2 contains odd number of valence electrons (5+6×2=17) it behaves as a typical odd molecule.On dimerisation it is converted to N2O4 which have even no. of electrons(5×2+6×4=34) which is stable. I.e