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The number of electrons in an atom decreases as you move from left to right in the periodic table.

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Electron affinity increases from left to right across the periodic table. This is caused by the decrease in atomic radius. As we already explained, moving from left to right across a period, atoms become smaller and smaller as the atomic number increases.
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