The most powerful oxidising agent is _____ ?

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Fluorine

Chlorine

Bromine

Iodine

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Fluorine is highly electronegative element, thereby strongly attracts the shared pair of electrons towards itself. As it easily accepts shared pair of electrons and undergoes reduction, it is considered as a strong oxidising agent. The trend of oxidising agent of halogen is:

$F_{2} > C l_{2} > B r_{2} > I_{2}$

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