. Account for the followingI. Chlorine water has both oxidizing and bleaching properties.II. H3PO2 and H3PO3 act as good reducing agents while H3PO4 doesn’t.

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a)chlorine need one more electron to complete its octet,thus it reduces itself and act as an oxidising agent. When chlorine is added to water, underchloric acids form:
Cl₂ + H₂O → HOCl + H+ + Cl- Due to its bleaching action it acts as an disinfectant (b)H3PO4 is already fully oxidized; it cannot accept another oxygen atom, so cannot reduce something. whereas H3PO2 and H3PO3 can accept two and one oxygen respectively