Arrange the hydrides of halogen family in decreasing order of thermal stability.
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All hydrides of group 16 elements, except H2O, are reducing agent.
The reducing power of these hydrides increase in going from H2S to H2Te, which may be due to increase in the size of the atom and hence decrease in the M-H bond energy.
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