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Ananya Shree

Class 11th
Chemistry
2 years ago

The dissociation of PCl5 decreases in presence of Cl2. Why?

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Muskan Anand

2 years ago

For PCl5 ⇌ PCl3 + Cl2. According to Le Chatelier’s principle, an increase in the concentration of Cl2 (one of the products) at equilibrium will favor the backward reaction, and thus the dissociation of PCl5 into PCl3 and Cl2 decreases.

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