Chemistry

Derrick Lang

9 September, 06:42

As you move down group one of the periodic table, what happens to the atomic radii?

(a. They increase, because of the higher number of occupied energy levels.

(b. They increase, because of the stronger attratction bewteen electrons and the

nucleus.

(c. They decrease, because of the weaker effective nuclear charge.

(d. They decrease, because of the lower number of protons.