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Molecules of a halogen e.g. Cl2 are attracted together the weak Van Der Waals forces. these forces can be easily broken with a very small amount of heat, meaning that these halogens have very low boiling points, this allows the halogen to exist as a gas naturally due to its low boiling point.

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