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Which of the two will be chemically more reactive; element A with atomic number 16 or element B with atomic number 17? Why?

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Element with atomic number 17 will be more reactive as it has 7 valence electrons in it's outermost shell, it's electronegativity is very high and it would try to gain the electron as early as possible.

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