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How do you define a radical (in Chemistry) and what is the electronic configuration of a chlorine radical?
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How do you define a radical (in Chemistry) and what is the electronic configuration of a chlorine radical?


A species with one or more unpaired electrons.

A chlorine free radical is a chlorine atom, 2,8,7.

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