Stability

Nitrogen fluoride is more stable than any of Nitrogen chloride and Nitrogen iodide. The last two are unstable and explosive. Why is this so ?

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Honey Arora ·

nitrogen flouride is stable because flourine is highly electronegative in nature and small in size and forms a strong bond with nitrogen.

but chlorine and iodine are comparitively larger in size and less electronegative and the bond formed by them is comparitively weaker and highly unstable.

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