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Among and , the compounds with greatest and least ionic character respectively are:

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B

C

D

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According to fazan's rule, ionic character directly depends on the size of cation and charge on the cation and inversely depends on the size of anion. Since here the anion () is same, the ionic character depends only on the size and charge of the cation. Among the given chlorides, has the largest size and has the smallest size. Hence, inspite of having greater charge (+2) will be least ionic because of very small size.
is most ionic and is least ionic.
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Among and , the compounds with greatest and least ionic character respectively are:
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