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Why is electron affinity of chlorine mor...

Why is electron affinity of chlorine more than that
of fluorine?

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Chlorine. Larger size of Cl can accomodate the extra electron easily. But size of second period element fluorine is very small. Thus difficult to hold 1 extra electron as columbic repulsion will be very high.
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