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Nuclear radius increases as you go down and to the left on the Periodic Table due to effective nuclear charge. Bassicaly, it means that sheilding of electrons by larger atoms having more things in the way that blocks the ability of the nucleus to pull on the electrons, thus the electrons are able to be further from the nucleus and have a larger radius.

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