Bleaching powder, CaOCl2, is treated as the mixed salt Ca(OCl)Cl, containing Ca^2+, OCl- and Cl- ions. What are the oxidation numbers of the two chlorine atoms (O is -2)?

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Bleaching powder, $CaOCl X_{2}$ , is treated as the mixed salt $Ca (OCl) Cl$ , containing $Ca X^{2 +}$ , $OCl X^{-}$ and $Cl X^{-}$ ions. What are the oxidation numbers of the two chlorine atoms (O is $- 2$ )?

OCl X^{-}

- 2 + x = - 1

gives

x = + 1

. In

Cl X^{-}

the value is

- 1

. The two Cl atoms are

+ 1

and

- 1