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    Electronegativity is the ability of an atom to attract electrons to itself. It is defined as the average of an atom's ionization energy and electron affinity. Pauling created a relative scale of electronegativity based on bond dissociation energies, where differences in electronegativity determine the type of bond between atoms - zero difference leads to pure covalent bonds, small differences result in polar covalent bonds, and large differences produce ionic bonds where electrons are transferred from the lower electronegativity atom to the higher one.

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    Electronegativity is the ability of an atom to attract electrons to itself. It is defined as the average of an atom's ionization energy and electron affinity. Pauling created a relative scale of electronegativity based on bond dissociation energies, where differences in electronegativity determine the type of bond between atoms - zero difference leads to pure covalent bonds, small differences result in polar covalent bonds, and large differences produce ionic bonds where electrons are transferred from the lower electronegativity atom to the higher one.

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    Electronegativity is the ability of an atom to attract electrons to itself. It is defined as the average of an atom's ionization energy and electron affinity. Pauling created a relative scale of electronegativity based on bond dissociation energies, where differences in electronegativity determine the type of bond between atoms - zero difference leads to pure covalent bonds, small differences result in polar covalent bonds, and large differences produce ionic bonds where electrons are transferred from the lower electronegativity atom to the higher one.

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    Electronegativity

    Electronegativity is the power of an atom to attract electrons to itself. According to Mulliken,


    it is the average between ionization energy and electron affinity of an atom. Pauling made a relative
    scale where dimensionless relative electronegativity differences are defined based on bond
    dissociation energies. When the electronegativity differences between two atoms are zero, the bonds
    will be going in a pure covalent way. With little electronegativity differences of atoms, the bonds of
    the atoms will be polar covalent. When electronegativity differences between atoms are high, the
    atoms with a high electronegativity scale will catch free electron(s) and atoms with low
    electronegativity will release electron(s). Thus, the bonds will be going in an ionic bonding way.

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