Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, October 5, 2010 at 7:42pm.
As one moves from left to right on the periodic table, the nucleus is increasing its positive charge so the pull on the outside electrons is greater and that decreases the size somewhat. As one moves down the periodic table, the electrons are being added to another shell and that makes the size larger.
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