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How would you account for the following ?
The value of electron gain enthalpy with negative sign for sulphur is higher than that for oxygen.

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Because of compact nature of oxygen atom, it has lower value of electron gain enthalpy than sulphur. In other words, sulphur has higher value of electron gain enthalpy than oo oxygen.
A smaller atom offers greater repulsion to the added electron.
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