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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 as smooth as that of lanthanoids.

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(i) This is due to presence of unpaired electrons in the (n–1) d orbitals of transition elements.
(ii) The chemistry of actinoids is not as smooth as lanthanoid because they are radioactive and show greater number of oxidation states due comparable energies of 5f, 6d and 7s orbitals



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