Question

State True or False.
The valence orbital of $C$ in silver acetylide is $sp$ hybridised.

Answer 1

$A{g}_2{C}_2$ can be regarded as a salt of weak acid acetylene.

In $A{g}^{+-}C\equiv C^{-+}Ag$ , valence orbital of C is sp hybridised which can be clearly seen from its structure.

Hence the statement is true