Question

Sodium is much more apt to exist as a cation than is chlorine. this is because __________. sodium is much more apt to exist as a cation than is chlorine. this is because __________. chlorine has a greater ionization energy than sodium does chlorine is more metallic than sodium chlorine is bigger than sodium chlorine is a gas and sodium is a solid chlorine has a greater electron affinity than sodium does

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Answer: Correct answers are- Electron affinity decreases; Cl has 7 valence electrons but Na has only 1. So Na is going to lose its e, Cl is going to gain an e.