Assertion: silicon | /r/CapableOf | tetrahalide hydrolyse
Facets:
value: unlike the carbon tetrahalides
type: OTHER
value: in water
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: The silicon tetrahalides hydrolyse readily in water, unlike the carbon tetrahalides, again because of the larger size of the silicon atom rendering it more open to nucleophilic attack and the ability of the silicon atom to expand its octet which carbon lacks.