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High School Chemistry Forum / Re: Explain why isn't the slope in the purple,green, red equal?
« Last post by sd79812 on Today at 05:47:39 PM »Because of the octest rule?
Guess: The only factors at play here are the nuclear charge which without slater's rules we only use a Z_eff estimate play a constant rate increasing effect going across the column left to right.
If the atomic radius isn't dropping as heavily as atomic number increases across a period, the only possibility is the shielding is increasing across the period. But that's a contradiction because you inner shell isn't changing across the same period.