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Fluorine provides the largest variety of interhalogen compounds among halogens, why?

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Fluorine provides the largest variety of interhalogen compounds among halogens because fluorine :
(i) is the strongest oxidising agent
(ii) has smallest size and
(iii) has highest electronegativity.
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