Between carbon and silicon, which element has the strongest attraction between its nucleus and its valence electrons? Explain?

Between carbon and silicon, silicon element has the strongest attraction between its nucleus and its valence electrons.

because silicon's nucleus is bigger than carbon.silicon loses electrons easily than carbon.

the answer is b because, investigating whether another species of moth also drinks tears might be interesting, but it would not directly explain why this species of moth does.

to explain why this species of moth drinks tears, the scientist could ask: "what nutrients that moths need are in elephant tears? "

the scientist could experiment with moth repellent or oter ways to keep the moths away, but that would not answer his original question.