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Standard XII
Chemistry
Addition of Sulphuric Acid and Water
What is Carbo...
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What is Carbocation?
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carbocation
is molecule in which a carbon atom bears three bonds and a positive charge.
Carbocations
are generally unstable because they do not have eight electrons to satisfy the octet rule.
such.... As..... CH3+
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