14. Triple bonds are the strongest, followed by double bonds and single bonds are the weakest.

Explain this trend using electric force and Coulomb's Law in your

answer.

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Explanation:

Recall that according to Coulomb's law, energy is inversely proportional to the  square of the distance separating the charges. This implies that the smaller the distance of the charges apart, the greater the magnitude of energy.

Similarly, the bond energy of a bond is inversely proportional to the bond length of the bond. The shorter the bond length of the bond, the greater the bond energy.

Triple bonds are shorter than double bonds and double bonds are shorter than single bonds. This implies that triple bonds, having the shortest bonds, also has the highest bond energy and single bonds having the longest bond length, has the lowest bond energy.