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Grade Upto college level Physical Chemistry

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

Profile image of Shashank
12 Years agoGrade Upto college level
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Profile image of Suraj Prasad
11 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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Profile image of Rahul Panwar
11 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.