Inorganic Chemistry is notorious for exceptions (e.g., why Beryllium doesn’t resemble Alkaline earth metals? Why H3PO3 is a diprotic acid?). K. Kumar dedicates separate boxes and footnotes to these exceptions, which are exactly what examiners ask in multiple-choice questions.
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Volume 2 (Class 12) covers transition elements, coordination compounds, and rest of p-block.
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