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Grade 9Inorganic Chemistry

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

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9 Years agoGrade 9
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9 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 
H20
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