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In this question, the motive is to find out whether an atom of fluorine is smaller than the atom of oxygen.
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So, let us take the help of periodic table and the periodic table can be here drawn as such.
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Now, let us point out the oxygen and fluorine in this very periodic table.
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So, this is our oxygen and this is our fluorine.
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So, the general trend for atomic radius can be here written as atomic and then we can say radius.
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So, whenever we move from left to right that is from left which is this very situation and then it is our right.
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Then in that case the atomic radius decreases.
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So, clearly here the fluorine lies after oxygen and hence the atomic radius of fluorine is basically lesser than the atomic radius of oxygen...