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OpenStudy (anonymous):

Oxygen has lower ionization enthalpy than n&f

OpenStudy (aaronq):

it has to do with electronic configurations and other factors. For N, think of the stability of half-filled sets of orbitals provide and for F, think about the effective nuclear charge, \(Z_{eff}\), experienced by valence e (or even better, calculate it using Slater's rules).

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