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Grade 11Physical Chemistry

If hybridisation of carbon in Ca C2 is so then it`s shape should have been linear, but it`s not so, why?

Profile image of Vaibhav Sharma
9 Years agoGrade 11
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Profile image of Vikas TU
9 Years ago
This is due to the lone pair present in each carbon of carbide though the molecule has a triple bond b/w them.
The linear hybridization form gets inhibited.