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3 years ago

Sodium is much more apt to exist as a cation than chlorine because:

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8090 [49]3 years ago

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Answer:

(D) chlorine has a greater ionization energy than sodium

Explanation:

Sodium is the element of the group 1 and period 3 which means that the valence electronic configuration is $[Ne]3s^1$ .

Chlorine is the element of the group 17 and period 3 which means that the valence electronic configuration is $[Ne]3s^23p^5$ .

Ionization energy is the minimum amount of energy which is required to knock out the loosely bound valence electron from the isolated gaseous atom.

<u>Thus, removal of one electron in sodium is easy as it will gain noble gas configuration and become stable. But this case does not exist in chlorine and hence, chlorine has a greater ionization energy than sodium.</u>

So,

Sodium is much more apt to exist as a cation than chlorine because chlorine has a greater ionization energy than sodium.

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