Monday, November 16, 2009

What element produces a violet vapor and an extremely unpleasant odor?

There are few elements on the periodic table with noticeable vapor pressures at room temperature, and four are colored, namely the halogens fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine. Fluorine is yellow, chlorine green, bromine red, and iodine violet-black. So, in lower concentrations of iodine (such as the vapor), it will look violet.

What element produces a violet vapor and an extremely unpleasant odor?
was this, by any chance for a worksheet in your chem class?


because i have to do this worksheet right now and the question i have uses almost identical wording. Report It

Reply:something in the same group as sulfur? Maybe Selenium?


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