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Grade 11Inorganic Chemistry

Why ionic energy increasa in from right to left in periods?

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8 Years agoGrade 11
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ApprovedApproved Tutor Answer8 Years ago
From left to right in periods, atomic radius of elements decreases, it becomes difficult to remove an electron that is close to more positively charged nucleas, because of which the ionisation energy increases in periods.