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Hello …. Arrange the following in order of their increasing reducing property and please explain why so arranged ?. NaH , MgH 2 and H 2 O

Hello ….
    Arrange the following in order of their increasing reducing property and please explain why so arranged ?.
    NaH , MgH2 and H2O

Grade:9

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Umakant biswal
5349 Points
7 years ago
ionic hydrides are strong reducing agent NAH can easily donate its electron . 
hence its most reducing , Mgh2 and H2o are covalent hydrides , h2o is less reducing than Mgh2 , since the bond dissociation energy of h2o is higher than mgh2 . 
hence , the increasing order 
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