Stability
Chlorous acid is a powerful oxidizing agent, although its tendency to disproportionation counteracts its oxidizing potential.
Chlorine is the only halogen to form an isolable acid of formula HXO2. Fluorine resists oxidation above the level of hypofluorous acid. Neither bromous acid nor iodous acid has ever been isolated. A few salts of bromous acid, bromites, are known, but no iodites.
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