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Among alkali metal salts, the lithium salts are the poorest conductors of electricity in aqueous solution because of
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higher degree of hydration of ions
Ionic conductance in solution depends upon the mobility of ions, which depend upon the degree (or extent) of hydration. Since charge/radius ratio is maximum for , so it is hydrated to a maximum extent. Thus, the ionic size in aqueous solution, instead of increasing, actually decreases on moving from to .
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