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How does the size of a berrylium atom compare with the size of oxygen?
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How does the size of a berrylium atom compare with the size of oxygen?

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Oxygen is fairly smaller than beryllium. The two have the same amount of orbital shells, but oxygen has more protons, which pulls its electrons closer together, thus decreasing the overall size.
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