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The elements that are characterized by having only five electrons in the p sublevel belong to which family of elements?

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The elements that are characterized by having only five electrons in the p sublevel belong to the family of elements known as halogens.
There are only five elements that belong to this family, and those are: fluorine (F), chlorine (Cl), bromine (Br), iodine (I), and astatine (At), but there is an additional one which is artificially created and is called tennessine (ts). The name halogen means - salt-producing.
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