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📅 MIT Science Bowl 2024🎓 HS🔄 Round 6#️⃣ Question 8🌟 BONUS✍️ Short Answer

While tin (IV)(read: four) chloride is stable at room temperature, lead (IV) chloride can only be stored at cryogenic temperatures. What effect, which describes the difficulty of ionizing s electrons of heavier main group elements, accounts for this observation?

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