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Which kind of fission is favoured by sun...

Which kind of fission is favoured by sunlight

A

Heterolytic fission

B

Homolytic fission

C

Both (a) and (b)

D

None of these

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B
Homolytic fission is favoured by sunlight. In it, each bonded atom takes away its shared electrons and thus free radicals are produced.
`Cl - Cl overset(hv) (to) Cl^(**) + Cl^(**)`
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