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Ionisation Energy????

Explain why the third Ionisation engery of magnesium is so much greater than the third ionisation energy of aluminum??

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Recycle, Re-use, Reduce Waste
in my country there are 3 different colors of garbage bin for recycling items 1Brown for Glasses 2Blue for papers 3.Orange for plastics and aluminum(cans etc)
Check for glass (broken cups etc)
The reason goes back to the idea of the octetWhen Magnesium loses two electrons it now has an octet Likewise, when Aluminum loses three electrons, it now has an octetIt requires a lot of energy to remove one more electron from either one, because, then you no longer have an octet.

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