how does chlorine hexafluoride work?

[peterwlocke]

how does chlorine hexafluoride work?

[chenbeier]

Chlorine hexaflourid is not existing. From Chlorine there are ClF, ClF₃ and ClF₅ existing. All are strong oxidiser chemical like the both halogene flourine and chlorine itself.

Edited March 8, 2019 by chenbeier

[peterwlocke]

oh my bad i think i misspelled it.

I meant trifluoride.

[hypervalent_iodine]

What do you mean by work? 

 

[peterwlocke]

like how does it do the stuff with oxidation?

[chenbeier]

It react with hydrogen for example

2 H2 + ClF3 => HCl + 3 HF

It is used as rocket fuel

 

Edited March 8, 2019 by chenbeier

[John Cuthber]

ClF3 works vigorously in most cases.

 

[peterwlocke]

oh, it is volatile and causes fast reactions.