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Why Fluorine Has Higher E.N. than Chorine? -

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Why fluorine has higher E.N. than chorine?

Solution

Since size of chlorine is bigger than fluorine hence the electrons being farther away from the nucleus experience a lesser force of attraction, hence electron negativity of chlorine is less than fluorine.

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