Except for the noble gases, nonmetals tend to have high electron affinities. What properties of nonmetals do you think are the result of this tendency?

Nonmetals are further to the right on the periodic table, and have high ionization energies and high electron affinities, so they gain electrons relatively easily, and lose them with difficulty.

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They also have a larger number of valence electrons, and are already close to having a complete octet of eight electrons.

Nonmetals are on the right on the periodic table because they have high ionization energies

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