Write a balanced half-reaction describing the reduction of gaseous dichlorine to aqueous chloride anions.

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Explanations:- In reduction the electrons are accepted and so they are written on the reactant side. When an atom accepts electrons then it forms anion. Chlorine has 7 valence electrons and it needs one more electron to complete it's octet. Since, dichlorine has two Cl atoms and each Cl atom needs one more electron to complete it's octet, two electrons are accepted by dichorine to make aqueous chloride ion. For balancing the equation, there would be two chloride ions as the reactant side has two chlorine atoms.

periodic trends is an atom that gets larger as the number of electronic shells increase, the radius of atoms increases as you go down a certain group in the periodic table of elements. in general, the size of an atom will decrease as you move from left to right of a certain period.