The low-mass elements, hydrogen and helium, were produced in the hot, dense conditions of the birth of the universe itself. The birth, life, and death of a star is described in terms of nuclear reactions. The chemical elements that make up the matter we observe throughout the universe were created in these reactions.
Reactants left products right
Answer:
It decreases
Explanation:
As one moves from left to right on the periodic table, the radius of atoms reduces due to the nuclear pull.
- The size of an atom estimated by the atomic radius is taken as half of the internuclear distance between the two covalently bonded atoms of non-metallic elements.
- Across a period, atomic radius decreases progressively from left to right.
- This is due to the increasing nuclear charge without attendant increase in the number of electronic shell.
