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    pushpa_bhagat Posts: 39, Reputation: 1
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    Feb 20, 2011, 11:52 PM
    BrCl5 has 90degree angles or not ?
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    Feb 21, 2011, 08:05 AM

    Well, from a theorical view, it's difficult to say...

    The angle in bromine pentafluoride is 84.9: Bromine pentafluoride - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Chlorine being bigger and having more electrons than fluorine I think would repel more and make a larger angle. But unless x-ray crystallography confirms this, I can't say for sure the bond angle.
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    Feb 22, 2011, 03:39 AM
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    Means we can say that approximately it has but not exactly?
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    Feb 23, 2011, 08:51 AM

    That's what I would say, because unless we use the tools we have, we cannot just 'guess' the angle to be dead 90 degrees.
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