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Why cations are smaller and anions are bigger in their neutral atoms

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Answered by Rajkd180203
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Cations are smaller in size than neutral atom due to the presence of more number of protons than number of electrons in the cations.

Anions are larger than neutral atom because of more number of electrons than number of protons in anions, coulombic force decreases and size increases.

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