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    A more reactive halogen will displace a less reactive one from its compounds in solution because the more reactive halogen is able to accept the extra electron from the metal ion. For example, when sodium chloride solution is mixed with fluorine, fluorine replaces chloride to form sodium fluoride because fluorine is more electronegative than chlorine and able to pull the electron away from chlorine. A table shows that chlorine will displace bromide and iodide from their salts but bromine only displaces iodide because reactivity decreases down the halogen group.

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    A more reactive halogen will displace a less reactive one from its compounds in solution because the more reactive halogen is able to accept the extra electron from the metal ion. For example, when sodium chloride solution is mixed with fluorine, fluorine replaces chloride to form sodium fluoride because fluorine is more electronegative than chlorine and able to pull the electron away from chlorine. A table shows that chlorine will displace bromide and iodide from their salts but bromine only displaces iodide because reactivity decreases down the halogen group.

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    A more reactive halogen will displace a less reactive one from its compounds in solution because the more reactive halogen is able to accept the extra electron from the metal ion. For example, when sodium chloride solution is mixed with fluorine, fluorine replaces chloride to form sodium fluoride because fluorine is more electronegative than chlorine and able to pull the electron away from chlorine. A table shows that chlorine will displace bromide and iodide from their salts but bromine only displaces iodide because reactivity decreases down the halogen group.

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    If a halogen is added to a solution of a compound containing a less reactive halogen, it will react with the compound and form

    a new one. This is called displacement. sodium chloride 2NaCl (aq) sodium fluoride 2NaF (aq)

    fluorine

    + +

    + +

    chlorine

    F2 (aq)

    Cl2 (aq)

    A more reactive halogen will always displace a less reactive halide from its compounds in solution.

    Why will a halogen always displace a less reactive halogen?

    If a metal halide is mixed with a more reactive halogen, the extra electron will be transferred from the less reactive to the more reactive halogen.

    +
    sodium Na Cl

    chlori e chloride

    fluori e fluoride F

    The reactions between solutions of halogens and metal halides (salts) can be summarised in a table: salt (aq) halogen chlorine potassium chloride potassium bromide 2KCl + Br2 potassium iodide 2KCl + I2 2KBr + I2

    bromine

    no reaction no reaction no reaction

    iodine

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