Question

Assertion: metals from basic oxide reason: metals can lose electrons

Answer 1

Answer:

When we go down the group, atomic radius increase. Due to this ionisation energy decrease and hence a tendency to lose electron also increases (i.e, metallic character is increased)

Since metallic character increase down the group, the acidic character of oxidises decreases down the group i.e, basicity increases down the group.

Hence the order of basicity is N

2

O

3

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2

O

3