Categories: Comparisons
"As you go down a vertical group in the periodic table, the trend is that the atomic radius increases as more energy levels are added on. This is similar to the observation that as a tree adds on growth rings, the stem becomes larger in radius."
Source: Murray Hart, retired science teacher, previously posted at scienceanalogies.com.
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