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Explain giving reasons :(i) Transition metals and their compounds generally exhibit a paramagnetic behaviour.(ii) The chemistry of actinoids is not so smooth as that of lanthanoids.

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Chapter19: Transitition Metals, Coordination Chemistry And Metallurgy

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Explain giving reasons :
(i) Transition metals and their compounds generally exhibit a paramagnetic behaviour.
(ii) The chemistry of actinoids is not so smooth as that of lanthanoids.

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