Covalent Bonding

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Question

Chlorine reacts with hot and concentrated NaOH and produces compounds(X) and(Y). Compound(X) gives white precipitate with silver nitrate solution. The average bond order between Cl and O atoms in (Y) is

(Round off to nearest integer)

Moderate
Solution

The reaction is,

'Cl--O' bond order in the hybrid = Number of bonds between Cl and O Total number of O (surrounding atoms) =53=1.66 or 1.67


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