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🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

電気陰性度

Pronunciation / Transliteration: denki-insei-do

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Electronegativity/ɪˌlɛk.trəʊˌnɛɡ.əˈtɪv.ə.ti/
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"電気陰性度の違いにより結合の極性が生じます。"

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A chemical property that describes the tendency of an atom to attract electrons towards itself in a covalent bond.

    "Fluorine has the highest electronegativity of all elements on the periodic table."
  2. 2

    The quantitative measure of the power of an atom or group to attract electrons from other parts of a molecule.

    "Differences in electronegativity between bonded atoms determine the polarity of a chemical bond."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the combination of 'electron' (ultimately from Greek 'ēlektron', meaning amber) and 'negativity', coined in the 20th century to describe the chemical property. The term gained widespread scientific prominence through the work of chemist Linus Pauling in the 1930s when developing his scale of atomic properties.

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