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Transition metals are much harder than the alkali metals.??

Transition metals are much harder than the alkali metals.??

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Pawan Prajapati
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3 years ago
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In transitional elements, in addition to metallic bonding there is extra covalent bonding due to presence of unpaired electrons in their ‘d’ orbitals, hence they are much harder.

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