Give reasons for the following: (a) CCl4 is immiscible in water, whereas SiCl4 is easily hydrolysed. (b) Carbon has a strong tendency for catenation compared to silicon.

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Due to bigger size of silicon water molecule due to presence of lone pair replace or hydrolysed Cl by OH group
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