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Grade 12Inorganic Chemistry

what is inert pair effect?explain briefly.explain with example.give some rules.

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10 Years agoGrade 12
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10 Years ago
Theinert pair effectis the tendency of the electrons in the outermost atomic s orbital to remain unionized or unshared in compounds of post-transition metals.In other words we can say that down the group the stability of lower O.S. increases or the tendency toform ions whose oxidation state is 2 less than the group valency increases.