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Grade 9Physical Chemistry

Hello ….
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
Highest electronegativity elemnt would have maxium reducing property .i.e. the best oxidizing agent.
Therefore, O atom is highest electronegative then after comes Mg and then Na.
Hence order would be:
NaH less than MgH2 less than H2O