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Lithium chloride is more covalent than sodium chloride. Justify this statement.

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1. The smaller cation and larger anion shows greater covalent character due to greater extent of polarisation.

2. The size of Liion is smaller than Na+ ion and hence the polarising power of Li+ ion is more. So lithium chloride is more covalent than sodium chloride.

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