Answer:
Iron is oxidized while chlorine is reduced.
Explanation:
The oxidation reduction reactions are called redox reaction. These reactions are take place by gaining or losing the electrons and oxidation state of elements are changed.
Oxidation:
Oxidation involve the removal of electrons and oxidation state of atom of an element is increased.
Reduction:
Reduction involve the gain of electron and oxidation number is decreased.
Consider the following reaction:
2FeCl₂ + Cl₂ → 2FeCl₃
in this reaction the oxidation state of iron is increased from +2 to +3. That's why iron get oxidized and it is reducing agent because it reduced the chlorine. The chlorine is reduced from -2 to -3 and it is oxidizing agent because it oxidized the iron.
2Fe⁺²Cl₂⁻²
2Fe⁺³Cl₃⁻³
The iron atom gives it three electrons to three atoms of chlorine and gain positive charge while chlorine atom accept the electron and form anion.
An intensive property is a bulk property, meaning that it is a local physical property of a system that does not depend on the system size or the amount of material in the system.
Answer:
Explanation:
Actinoids are the series have 15 element in the periodic table.
Chemistry of actinoids are complicated because of the following reasons.
- Their outer most orbitals are 6d and 7s but most of the electrons resides in 5f orbitals. These orbitals are most exposed to environment and incoming electron picked up by 5f orbital instead of 6d or 7s orbitals.
- They are radioactive elements that couldn't be handle in normal condition to study their properties.
- Their f-orbital can accommodate 14 electrons and they have many variable oxidation state.
- 5d electron donot contribute in the formation of chemical bonds.
- They have a very strong tendency to make complexes
- Most of the actinoides are artificial and are in very minute in amount. they are in very less quantity that is amounts found in nano-grams so are more expensive too and
- As they are radioactive so their half life is very short and in very less time the decay occur so couldn't be study as upon decay their actual properties changed.
Due to all the above reasons it make difficult for a chemist to study about the chemical properties of actinoids.
