Chlorine (Cl2Cl2) is a strong germicide used to disinfect drinking water and to kill microbes in swimming pools. If the product is Cl−Cl−, was the elemental chlorine oxidized or reduced?

The elemental chlorine was reduced

Explanation: inl the elemental form, the oxidation state of chlorine is =0 on been reduced to Cl-Cl-, the oxidation state reduces to -1

a. energy is absorbed in the reaction.

if in a given reaction the energy of products is greater than the energy of reactants it means that reaction is endothermic and during the reaction, the energy is absorbed by reactants. in an endothermic reaction, the products have more stored chemical energy than the reactants. and in this reaction the reactants are more stable than products before the compounds with less energy are always more stable.