Posted by Chemistry on Wednesday, November 14, 2007 at 11:00pm.
Any time you add electrons to a shell, it makes the radius larger because the electrons repel each other. You must add two electrons to a neutral Te atom to obtain Te= and you must add three electrons to neutral Al to obtain Al3-.
so which is the correct way of increasing radius and what is a Te=
I don't know that there is "a correct way" of increasing radius. From my discussion can you not see that Te is smaller than Te= and Al is smaller than Al3+?
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