When chlorine reacts with water what are the final products?

Hydrochloric acid

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Hypochlorous acid

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Nascent oxygen

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Chlorine gas

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Solution

The correct options are
A
Hydrochloric acid

C
Nascent oxygen

Chlorine reacts with moisture and forms hydrochloric acid and hypochlorous acid.

$C l_{2} + H_{2} O \to H C l + H C l O$

Hypochlorous acid (HClO) is unstable, so it breaks down into HCl and nascent oxygen [O]

$H C l O \to H C l + [O]$

The nascent oxygen is a powerful bleaching agent and is responsible for the bleaching action.

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