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Questions carrying two marks : When caesium can be used in photoelectric cell while lithium cannot be?

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Caesium has the lowest while lithium has the highest ionization enthalpy among all the alkali metals. Hence, caesium can lose electron very easily while lithium cannot and in photoelectric cell the metal is chosen with minimum work function, hence Caesium is used in photoelectric cell.
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