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Because the packing of the molecules in CCl4 is tighter than SiCl4 in the solid state, so the weak interactions become stronger, even though the weak forces in the SiCl4 are slightly stronger because the `effective radius ` of each of the molecules in the larger molecule is larger and so stronger.
