define electronegativity
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What is meant by electronegativity?
Electronegativity is a measure of an atom's ability to attract shared electrons to itself.
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Electronegativity, symbolized as χ, is the tendency for an atom of a given chemical element to attract shared electrons when forming a chemical bond. An atom's electronegativity is affected by both its atomic number and the distance at which its valence electrons reside from the charged nucleus.
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