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Grade 10Inorganic Chemistry

Valency of h2 is -1tell me how according to me it should be -2

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7 Years agoGrade 10
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7 Years ago
Here valence of H2 is -1 as you have to consider single H atom.So here we consider H2 molecule which share one electron as a covalent bond. Thus , valence becomes -1 and not -2.