Description of Electronegativity - the ability of an atom within a molecule to attract electrons. The concept was invented by chemist, Linus Pauling.
This is one of a series of Chemistry Vignettes prepared as part of a Departmental project collaboration between the University of East Anglia and the University of Southampton, with the financial support and advice from the UK Physical Sciences Centre of the Higher Education Academy.
Shared by Dr Simon J. Lancaster.
Used as a teaching aid for first year undergraduate chemists after completion of the lecture and during the revision period.
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/).
