True or false: 1. Tunneling is more likely to contribute to reactions involving electron transfer than to those involving proton transfer. 2. The energy levels of He only depend on the principal quantum number n. 3. The ionization energy of F is smaller than that of Br.

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1. Tunneling is more likely to contribute to reactions involving electron transfer than to those involving proton transfer.

2. The energy levels of He only depend on the principal quantum number n.

3. The ionization energy of F is smaller than that of Br.

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Quantum mechanical tunneling is the phenomenon in which particles can penetrate through the potential energy barrier. This helps in explaining different physical phenomena including radioactivity. 

Ionization energy is the minimum energy required to remove the outermost electron from an tom which is always low for metals an relatively higher for non metals.

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