Is electronegativity quantifiable on an absolute scale?

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anor277
Aug 26, 2017

Absolutely not...........

Explanation:

Electronegativity is conceived to be the ability of an atom involved in a chemical bond to polarize electron density towards itself. There are various scales, of which the Pauling scale was one of the earliest, and is still most widely used.

Pauling originally used ionization enthalpies, and electron affinities, measurable atomic properties, which he then normalized to give a useful scale that gave a dimensionless quantity, χ, that varied between 0 and 4.

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