Explain why flourine has a lower melting point than chlorine.
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It has low melting and boiling points , second lowest to flourine because chlorine having a weak dipole bonds because of less electrons in chlorine . And because of less size of flourine than chlorine . so flourine has a lower m.p that chlorine..
Answer:
This is because the instantaneous dipole-induced dipole bonds are weak due to F2 having less electrons than any other halogen molecules.