Glencoe Chemistry: Matter and Change, Student Edition
Glencoe Chemistry: Matter and Change, Student Edition
1st Edition
ISBN: 9780076774609
Author: McGraw-Hill Education
Publisher: MCGRAW-HILL HIGHER EDUCATION
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Chapter EH, Problem 44R
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Interpretation : The product formed when bismuth is combined with chlorine is to be predicted.

Concept Introduction : A solid with a pink color, bismuth is glossy and grey in color. It is brittle and one of the least conducting metals on the periodic table.

The product formed when bismuth is combined with chlorine is bismuth trichloride.

Among the group 15 elements, bismuth is the metal.

Bismuth can react with oxygen and halogens.

On reacting with chlorine, bismuth gives bismuth trichloride.

  2Bis+3Cl2g2BiCl3s

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