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Why can anions with the same number of electrons have different radii?

Why can anions with the same number of electrons have different radii?

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Sunil Kumar FP
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9 years ago
anions with same number of electrons have diffrent radii because of different nuclear charge.as the charge on the nucleus which is the number of proton is different therefore it attracts the same no of electrons with different values of coloumbic force and therefore their sizes are different

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