Why chlorine has highest electron affinity compared to fluorine, bromine and iodine
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Thus, one would expect fluorine to have a greater electron affinity than chlorine. Fluorine, though higher than chlorine in the periodic table, has a very small atomic size. This makes the fluoride anion so formed unstable (highly reactive) due to a very high charge/mass ratio.
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U said that fluorine has small size when compared to chlorine but iodine has large size than chlorine then why iodine doesn't have high electron affinity
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