Given below are two statements :
Statement (I) : Experimentally determined oxygen-oxygen bond lengths in the $\mathrm{O}_3$ are found to be same and the bond length is greater than that of a $\mathrm{O}=\mathrm{O}$ (double bond) but less than that of a single $(\mathrm{O}-\mathrm{O})$ bond.
Statement (II) : The strong lone pair-lone pair repulsion between oxygen atoms is solely responsible for the fact that the bond length in ozone is smaller than that of a double bond $(\mathrm{O}=\mathrm{O})$ but more than that of a single bond $(\mathrm{O}-\mathrm{O})$.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below :
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Subject: Chemistry · Chapter: Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure · Topic: Ionic and Covalent Bonding
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