Multiple choice

Which of the following alkaline earth metals does not react with hydrogen to form hydride?

  1. Be

  2. Mg

  3. Ca

  4. Ba
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Explanation

this option is correct because Be being small in size does not react directly to form hydride however its hydride can be obtained by the reduction of berrylum chloride with lithium aluminium hydride as per the following reaction:2BeCl2 + LiAlH4  ------------> 2BeH2 + HCl + AlCl3

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