Question

Explain why fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine have similar bonding properties

Answer 1

Answer: they belong to halogens

so, they have similar chemical properties such as valency , electronic configuration

Explanation:

Answer 2

Fluorine, chlorine, bromine and iodine have similar bonding properties because all of the have same no. of valence electrons in their outer most shell. All of them only need one more electrons to fulfill its octet.

So they all combine in similar manners.

Remember they have similar combining properties, not same or equal properties.

I hope this helps.

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