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Fluorine is more reactive than chlorine.
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It isn't. Fluorine is more reactive. However, Chlorine is more reactive than Bromine, Iodine and Astatine. It is all to do with molecular size. Fluorine wants to get to a stable 10 electrons to be like Neon more than Chlorine wants to get to get 18 lectrons to be like Argon. This is because the valence/bonding electrons are closer to the nucleus in Fluorine than they are Chlorine and thus more strongly attracted.
theyhave more neutrons and protons
Fluorine has more electronegativity, meaning it is more "desperate" to obtain electrons. Its nucleus is the most attractive of all elements.
Fluorine is more reactive than chlorine.
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Fluorine is more chemically similar to chlorine than it is to oxygen. Fluorine and chlorine both have 7 valance electrons, whereas oxygen has 6.
It isn't. Fluorine is more reactive. However, Chlorine is more reactive than Bromine, Iodine and Astatine. It is all to do with molecular size. Fluorine wants to get to a stable 10 electrons to be like Neon more than Chlorine wants to get to get 18 lectrons to be like Argon. This is because the valence/bonding electrons are closer to the nucleus in Fluorine than they are Chlorine and thus more strongly attracted.
theyhave more neutrons and protons
Fluorine has the highest electronegativity of any element. Its electronegativity is 4. Oxygen has the second highest electronegativity of any element, with an electronegaitivity of 3.5, and chlorine has an electronegativity of 3.16 on the Pauling scale. Note that there is more than one scale for measuring electronegativity. But no matter which scale you use, Fluorine is more electronegative than oxygen, which is more electronegative than chlorine.
Oxidising agents gain electrons. Fluorine is a smaller atom than chlorine, so the effective pull of its nucleus is greater.
Fluorine has more electronegativity, meaning it is more "desperate" to obtain electrons. Its nucleus is the most attractive of all elements.
Fluorine has more electronegativity, meaning it is more "desperate" to obtain electrons. Its nucleus is the most attractive of all elements.
Something more reactive than bromine. Chlorine or fluorine would do it.
Both fluorine and chlorine have seven valence electrons. In the case of fluorine they're in n=2 and in the case of fluorine they're in n=3, but other than that they're the same.
The bond between phosphorus and fluorine atoms is more polar than the bond between phosphorus and chlorine atoms.