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Chlorine is treated with methane. Give balanced reaction.

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Methane reacts rapidly with chlorine in the presence of sunlight to form four products. In this reaction, chlorine atoms replace, only by one, all the hydrogen atom in the methane.
`underset("Methane")(CH_(4)-Cl_(2))overset("Sunlight")to underset("Methyl chloride")(CH_(3)Cl+HCl)`
`CH_(3)-Cl+Cl_(2) overset("Sunlight")to underset("Methylene dichloride")(CH_(2)Cl_(2)+HCl)`
`underset("Methylene dichloride")(CH_(2)Cl_(2)+Cl_(2))overset("Sunlight")to underset("Chloroform")(CHCl_(3))+HCl`
`underset("Chloroform")(CHCl_(3))+overset("Sunlight")to underset("Carbon tetrachloride")("CC"l_(4) + HCl)` s
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