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Explain why is there a phenomenal decrease in ionization enthalpy from carbon to silicon ?

Shashank , 11 Years ago
Grade Upto college level
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Suraj Prasad

Last Activity: 10 Years ago

the net effective nuclear charge decreases as we move down the group and its easy to remove electron from the valence shell......
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Rahul Panwar

Last Activity: 10 Years ago

On moving down the group, the effective nuclear charge gets decreased due to increase in atomic size and, thus, ionization enthalpy gets decreased from carbon to silicon.

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