Which of the following species will have the largest and the smallest size?
$M g, M g^{+ +}, A I, A I^{+ 3} .$

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Solution

In periodic table $M g$ and $A l$ . Hence, comparatively size of $M g$ is more and we know that size of cations is always less than that of atoms.
So, $M g$ has the largest size while $A l^{3 +}$ has the smallest size.

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