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Which of the following has lowest ionization energy?

a:beryllium
b:oxygen
c:boron
d:carbon

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Beryllium because it's a metal which is in nature usually found as cations held together by delocalized electrons and there is also a trend on the periodic table which suggests that ionization energy increases from left to right across a period and decreases from top to bottom down a group
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