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ChemistryChemical Bonding and Molecular StructureJEE Main

The increasing order (lower first) of size of the various hybridised orbitals is

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Solution

The size of a hybrid orbital decreases as its s-character increases (greater s-character pulls the orbital closer to the nucleus). The s-character in , and

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