Question

speech on electro negativity scales

Answer 1

Electronegativity is basically defined as 'Electronegativity is a chemical property that describes the tendency of an atom or a functional group to attract electrons towards itself' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronegativity; however other definitions are as follows:

'Electronegativity is a measure of the tendency of an element to attract electrons to itself.' (Philips Matthews (1992). Advanced Chemistry. United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. 107)

)

'Electronegativity of an atom is the power of the atom in a molecule to attract electrons'.(Graham Hill and John Holman, Chemistry in Context, page114,1978)

'Electronegativity is the relative ability of an atom to attract electrons. When bounded to another atom, the more electronegative element attracts a pair of electrons more strongly than dose the less electronegative element'. (Douglas C. Neckers and Michael P. Doyle, Organic chemistry, pg.6)

'The ability of an atom in a given molecule to attract electrons to itself is called the relative electronegativity of an atom'. (Mensah, I. A et al, A-level chemistry volume I and II, pg 59)

'The different affinities of atoms for the electrons in a bound are described by a property called electronegativity: the ability of an atom in a molecule to attract shared electrons to itself'.