Question 30 • IA-Chemistry A Survey of Chemistry A
For a binary molecular compound, write the less electronegative element first. Chlorine is less electronegative than fluorine, so chlorine comes before fluorine. The prefixes in “chlorine monofluoride” indicate one atom of each element, and the 1s are omitted in the formula: ClF, choice A.
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