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Why does boron have a higher ionization energy than fluorine?
Alanamunro01
Because fluorine's size is lower than that of iodine, it has a greater ionization energy than iodine. Fluorine, on the other hand, appears to have a smaller shielding effect. As a result, fluorine's nucleus attracts more valence electrons than iodine's.
Ligaya Camacho
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∙ 9y agoThe first Ionization energy of Boron is 800.6 kJ mol-1
The first Ionization energy of Fluorine is 1681.0 kJ mol-1
Thus as you can see it is actually Fluorine and NOT Boron that has the higher Ionization energy.
Looking at the Periodic Table, in general:-
- Across a row (left to right) on the periodic table ionization energy increases.
- Down a column, ionization energy decreases.
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∙ 11y agoit doesn't. they have the same radius.
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