Question

Why fluorine and chlorine and gases but bromine is a liquid?

Answer 1

Answer:

fluorine and chlorine has less polarizability whereas bromine has more polarizability

Explanation:

polarizability is the quantitative measurement of how much electronic cloud can be distorted.flourine and chlorine has less atomic size thats why their polarizability is less and their boiling points are less than bromine and iodine.So this is the reason that bromine exist in liquid and iodine exist in solid state at room temperature.

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