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Q. Fluorine has low electron affinity than chlorine because of

NTA AbhyasNTA Abhyas 2020Classification of Elements and Periodicity in Properties

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Fluorine has low EA than chlorine because of smaller size of fluorine and compact $2\text{p}$ -orbital where interelectronic repulsion is more