ELECTRONEGATIVITY

Electronegativity

Electronegativity, symbol <span class="nounderlines">χ</span>, is a chemical property that describes the tendency of an atom or a functional group to attract electrons towards itself. An atom's electronegativity is affected by both its atomic number and the distance that its valence electrons reside from the charged nucleus. The higher the associated electronegativity number, the more an element or compound attracts electrons towards it. First proposed by Linus Pauling in 1932 as a development of valence bond theory, it has been shown to correlate with a number of other chemical properties. Electronegativity cannot be ...

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electronegativity

Noun

  1. the tendency, or a measure of the ability, of an atom or molecule to attract electrons and thus form bonds


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