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How do you calculate the electronegativity of an atom?

Answer 1

There are various scales of electronegativity, of which the Pauling scale was the earliest, and is still widely used.

Pauling originally used ionization enthalpies, and electron affinities, measurable atomic parameters, which he then normalized to give a scale between #0-4#,,,

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Answer 2

Sarah Angotti

Electronegativity is calculated using the Pauling scale, determined by the formula: ( \text{Electronegativity} = 0.5 \times (\text{ionization energy} + \text{electron affinity}) ).

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Answer from HIX Tutor

When evaluating a one-sided limit, you need to be careful when a quantity is approaching zero since its sign is different depending on which way it is approaching zero from. Let us look at some examples.