Ionization energy generally increases across a period because:

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Across a period, electrons are added to the same shell, but the number of protons increases, leading to a greater effective nuclear charge. This pulls electrons closer, decreasing atomic radius and making it harder to remove an electron, so ionization energy increases.

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