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Monday, April 13, 2020

Why LiCl is predominantly covalent while NaCl is ionic?

LiCl is covalent because Li+ ion is smaller in size as compared to Na+ ion and hence it has high polarising power than Na+ ion, as result LiCl is predominantly covalent while NaCl is ionic.

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