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Which has smaller size neon or fluorine ? Give reason

Which has smaller size neon or fluorine ? Give reason 

Grade:12th pass

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Arun
25750 Points
4 years ago
Neon has weak van der waals forces. So neon is large in size than fluorine. In neon the electrons are more crowded and hence the force of attraction from the nucleus decreases and this results in greater size of neon than fluorine.

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