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You question is not very clearly stated but I think I know what you are asking. As you go down the column of any family of elements in the Periodic Table, you move to increasingly heavier and larger atoms. Their outer electrons are therefore farther from the nucleus, and even though the nucleus is larger and has a larger positive charge, the increased distance is the predominant influence, making the outermost electrons less tightly bound, and therefore more easily ionized, with a lower ionization energy.

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In ionization energy how does the property varies within a group?

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