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What are the uses of halogens?

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Water purification
Bleaching agents
Flame-retardants
Fire extinguishers
Antiseptic/disinfectant

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What is the colour of fluorine?

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Pale yellow gas

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What is the colour of chlorine?

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Green/yellow gas

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What is the colour of bromine?

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Orange/brown liquid

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What is the colour of iodine?

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Grey/black solid, purple vapour

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What is volatility?

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How easily a substance can evaporate

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How does volatility change down the group?

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As boiling points increase, volatility decreases

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What kind of molecules are halogens?

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Diatomic, simple molecular with weak London forces

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How does electronegativity change down the group?

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Decreases

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What is oxidising power?

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Ability to accept an electron

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How does the oxidising power change down the group?

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Decreases

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How does reactivity change down the group?

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Decreases as they find it more difficult to attract incoming electrons needed to form 1- ion

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What happens in displacement reactions?

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A more reactive halogen displaces a less reactive one from a halide solution of the less reactive halogen

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What kind of reactions are displacement reactions generally?

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Redox - as the halide ion loses electrons and the halogen gains electrons

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What happens when you add chloride solution to colourless potassium bromide solution?

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Displacement reaction - solution becomes yellow - orange as bromine is formed

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What happens when you add chloride solution to colourless potassium iodide solution?

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Displacement reaction - solution becomes brown as iodine is formed

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What happens if an organic solvent is added to potassium bromide solution?

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Organic layer will appear yellow-orange as bromine is formed

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What happens if an organic solvent is added to potassium iodide solution?

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Organic layer will appear purple as iodine is formed

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What do halogens act as?

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Oxidising agents

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What do chlorine and bromine oxidise?

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Iron (ll) to Iron (lll)

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Why doesn’t iodine oxidise Iron (ll)?

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It is not a strong enough oxidising agent

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What does Iron (lll) due to iodide ions?

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Iodine is oxidised from iodide ions to iodine by Iron (lll)

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What kind of reaction is the one between chlorine and a dilute alkali?

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A disproportionation reaction - chlorine gets oxidised and reduced simultaneously

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What is produced in the reaction between chlorine and a cold alkali?

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Sodium chloride + sodium hypochlorite + water
Cl2 + 2NaOH = NaCl + NaClO + H2O

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What is produced in the reaction between Chlorine and a hot alkali?
Sodium chloride + sodium chlorate + water 3Cl2 + 6NaOH = 5NaCl + NaClO3 + 3H2O
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What can chlorine be used for in terms of water?
Can be used to clean it and make it drinkable
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What is the reaction of chlorine with water?
Disproportionation Produces hydrochloric acid and chloric acid Cl2 + H2O = HCl + HClO
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How does chloric acid sterilise water?
By killing bacteria
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What can HClO further disassociate into in water?
H+ and ClO- ClO- also acts as sterilising agent, cleaning the water
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What is produced when chloride, bromide and iodide ions react with concentrated sulphuric acid?
A toxic gas is produced - needs to be carries out in a fume cupboard
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What is the general reaction of halide ions with concentrated sulphuric acid?
H2SO4 + X- = HX + HSO4- Produces a hydrogen halide
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How is concentrated sulphuric acid added to sodium chloride crystals?
Dropwise
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What is produced by the reaction of sodium chloride with concentrated sulphuric acid?
Hydrogen chloride gas and sodium sulphate H2SO4 + NaCl = HCl + NaHSO4
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What is the hydrogen chloride gas produced as? (from concentrated sulphuric acid)
White fumes
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How does the thermal stability of hydrogen halides change down the group?
It decreases
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What is the reaction of sodium bromide and concentrated sulphuric acid?
H2SO4 + NaBr = HBr + NaHSO4
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What does concentrated sulphuric acid do to hydrogen bromide?
Oxidises it
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What happens given that sulphuric acid oxidises hydrogen bromide?
It decomposes it into bromine and hydrogen gas Sulphuric acid is reduced to sulphur dioxide gas
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What is the reaction of hydrogen bromide and sulphuric acid?
2HBr + H2SO4 = Br2 + SO2 + 2H2O
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What is bromine produced as? (after being oxidised with sulphuric acid)
A reddish-brown gas
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What is the reaction of sodium iodide and sulphuric acid?
H2SO4 + Nal = Hl + NaHSO4
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Does the sulphuric acid oxidise the hydrogen iodide?
Yes - to many extents
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What is one way sulphuric acid oxidises hydrogen iodide?
To iodine (released as a purple/violet vapour) - l2 Sulphur dioxide - SO2 To water - H2O
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What is another way sulphuric acid oxidises hydrogen iodide?
To iodine To sulphur - seen as a yellow solid To water
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What is the final way sulphuric acid oxidises hydrogen iodide?
To iodine To Hydrogen sulphide - has a strong smell of bad eggs To water
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How can halide ions be identified in an unknown solution?
Dissolving the solution in nitric acid Adding a silver nitrate solution Then adding ammonia solution
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How do halide ions react with silver nitrate solution?
AgNO3 + X- = AgX + NO3- Ag+ + X- = AgX
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What will happen if an unknown solution contains a halide ion when added with silver nitrate?
A precipitate of the silver halide will be formed
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How do we identify the halide ion after the silver halide precipitate has formed?
We add dilute and then concentrated ammonia
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How do we tell if the halide is a chloride ion?
If the silver halide precipitate dissolves in dilute ammonia
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How do we tell if the halide is a bromide ion?
If the silver halide precipitate does not dissolve in dilute ammonia but does in concentrated
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How do we tell if the halide is a iodide ion?
If it dissolves in neither dilute nor concentrated ammonia
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What is the colour of silver chloride solution?
White
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What is the colour of silver bromide solution?
Cream
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What is the colour of silver iodide solution?
Pale yellow
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What happens when a halogen reacts with hydrogen?
A hydrogen halide is produced
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What do hydrogen halides react with ammonia gas to form?
Ammonium halides e.g. NH3 + HCl = NH4Cl
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Do hydrogen halides react with water?
Yes e.g. Hydrogen chloride dissolves in water to form hydrochloric acid

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