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Grade 12th passInorganic Chemistry

Ammonia is only a mild reducing agent while BiH3 is the strongest reducing agent amongst all the hydrides.
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9 Years agoGrade 12th pass
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HI,
The reducing character of hydride of group 15 elements increases from NH3 TO BiH3 because the reducing character depends upon stability of hydride .{\color{Yellow} }{\color{Yellow} {\color{DarkBlue} }} BiH3 is the least stable (because the size of central atom is greatest & therefore its tendency to form stable covalent bond with small hydrogen atom decreases,as a result the bond strength decreases) in this series  , hence reducing character increases

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