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How does Bromine make it's escape.

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So, when bromine comes near the ethylene pi bond, it attacks the electron and grabs it, but the second bromine steals it away and departs as Br-. After all, bromine is more electronegative than carbon; the first bromine is just a link in the chain of events that allows the second bromine to escape with an electron.

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