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ChemistryPERIODIC TABLEMiscellaneous/MixedEasy2 minPYQ_2020
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Germanium (II) compounds are powerful reducing agents whereas lead (IV) compounds are strong oxidising agents even they belongs to same group (14), this is due to

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Answer:
A
Solution:

Inert pair effect increases in 14th group as the atomic number increases.

On moving top to bottom on group 14

Z C 6 Si 1 4 Ge 3 2 Sn 5 0 Pb 8 2 Atomic number increases Inert pair effect increases

Stream:NTA_ABHYASSubject:ChemistryTopic:PERIODIC TABLESubtopic:Miscellaneous/Mixed
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