On moving from left to right in a period in the periodic table, the atomic number of elements increases. What happens to the size of the atoms of elements on moving from left to right in a period?
(a) Increases
(b) Decreases
(c) Remains same
(d) First increases then decreases
Option (b) is the answer.
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