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saw5 [17]
4 years ago
12

Explain why fluorine has a smaller atomic radius than oxygen

Chemistry
1 answer:
4vir4ik [10]4 years ago
3 0

Answer:

Explanation:

Atomic radii:

It is the distance from center of an atom to valance shell.

Atomic radii trend along period:

As we move from left to right across the periodic table the number of valance electrons in an atom increase. The atomic size tend to decrease in same period of periodic table because the electrons are added with in the same shell. When the electron are added, at the same time protons are also added in the nucleus. The positive charge is going to increase and this charge is greater in effect than the charge of electrons. This effect lead to the greater nuclear attraction. The electrons are pull towards the nucleus and valance shell get closer to the nucleus. As a result of this greater nuclear attraction atomic radius decreases and ionization energy increases because it is very difficult to remove the electron from atom and more energy is required.

Fluorine is present next to oxygen that's why by adding one more electron to fluorine atomic radius decreases.

Atomic radii trend along group:

As we move down the group atomic radii increased with increase of atomic number. The addition of electron in next level cause the atomic radii to increased. The hold of nucleus on valance shell become weaker because of shielding of electrons thus size of atom increased.

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