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Grade 11Inorganic Chemistry

Illustrate with example SIZWEEK MAXIMUM VALENCY THEORY. Give example of compression of octate

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9 Years agoGrade 11
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Profile image of Vikas TU
9 Years ago
Form sidwick theory, it is said that
the covalency of all the elements in Periodic table is fixed according to their periods.
For example for first period that is for Hydrogen it is defined 2.
For period 2 it is 4 and so on.
This is the Sidwick Maximum Theory.