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WHICH HAS MAX HARDNESS NAF AL2O3 MGF2 TIO2

WHICH HAS MAX HARDNESS


   NAF  AL2O3   MGF2 TIO2

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ruchi yadav
askIITians Faculty 27 Points
10 years ago
hardness depends upon d covalency or d covalent strength of d cov bonds. all hard substances r brittle because in d absence of ionicity d molecules slip easily. in case of polymers de r plastic because in dem thr is nothing apart frm d strong n higly durable covalent bonds


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Ruchi
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Shubham Gupta
19 Points
6 years ago
Al2O3 has maximum hardness Hardness of ionic compound directly proportional to lattice energy And lattice energy directly proportional to effective charge/radius ratio(Z+ * Z- /r+ + r-)

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