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What do you mean by Electro negativity?

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Solution :Electro negativity is RELATIVE tendency of a bonded atom to attract the bond-electrons towards it. It just compares the tendency of various elements to attract the bond-electrons towards themselves.
(a) Electron negativity decreases in a GROUP from top to bottom
(b) Electron negativity increases in a period from left to RIGHT
(c) Electro negativity is related to ionizatio energy. Electrons with low ionization energies have low electro negativity because their nuclei do nto exert a strong attractive force on electrons.
(d) Elements with high ionization energies have high electro negativity due to the strong PULL exerted on electrons by the NUCLEUS.


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