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What are the characteristics of hard and soft acids and bases???

What are the characteristics of hard and soft acids and bases???

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Arun
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6 years ago
Hard acids have the opposite characteristics that result in low polarization of valence electrons. Soft bases are electron-pair donors--Lewis bases--in which thedonor atom, similar to a soft acid, has a high polarizability. Hard bases have adonor atom with the opposite characteristics

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