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what is hydride ion

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what is hydride ion

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Arjun Virmani

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1 Feb 2012 00:04:43 IST

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The hydride ion is H^-.

since H has 1 electron in the 1s shell (outermost) it either has to borrow 1 more to be stable as hydride ion H^- or denote that electron and be H⁺ ion.

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