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Q. The hybridisation of P in $PO_{4}^{3 -}$ is the same as in

NTA AbhyasNTA Abhyas 2020Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure

Solution:

Both $PO_{4}^{3 -}$ and $SO_{4}^{2 -}$ have $sp^{3}$ hybridisation for central atoms as hybrid value is 4 as there are 4 bond pairs in both P and S.