AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Electronegativity is a chemical property that describes the tendency of an atom or a functional group to attract electrons toward itself.

Detailed explanation-2: -Electronegativity is a measure of an atom’s ability to attract shared electrons to itself. On the periodic table, electronegativity generally increases as you move from left to right across a period and decreases as you move down a group.

Detailed explanation-3: -Electronegativity is defined as the ability of an atom in a molecule to attract electrons to itself. The concept of an electronegativity scale for the elements was proposed by Pauling.

Detailed explanation-4: -Electronegativity refers to the ability of an atom to attract shared electrons in a covalent bond. The higher the value of the electronegativity, the more strongly that element attracts the shared electrons.

Detailed explanation-5: -Electronegativity is a measure of the tendency of an atom to attract a bonding pair of electrons. The Pauling scale is the most commonly used. Fluorine (the most electronegative element) is assigned a value of 4.0, and values range down to caesium and francium which are the least electronegative at 0.7.