Electronegativity ... is the ability of one atoms to "steal" an electrons from another atom is why oxygen has a partial negative charge in a water molecule creates polarity in covalent bonds all of the above

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Leroy Bolton

Chemistry

24 January, 20:37

Electronegativity ... is the ability of one atoms to "steal" an electrons from another atom is why oxygen has a partial negative charge in a water molecule creates polarity in covalent bonds all of the above

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Layla Franco · Answer 1

Electronegativity is the ability of one atom to steal an electron from another atom

Explanation:

Electronegativity is the tendency of an atom to attract electron to itself in a chemical bonding.

If atimes bonded together have the same electronegativity, the shared electrons will be equally shared. If the electrons of a bond are more attracted to one atom than the other, the electrons will be unequally shared If the electronegativity is large enough, the electrons will not be shared at all.

Austin Sherman · Answer 2

is the ability of one atoms to "steal" an electrons from another atom.

Explanation:

Electronegativity is the property of an atom which increases with its tendency to attract the electrons of a bond.

Electronegativity is determined by factors like the nuclear charge (the more protons an atom has, the more "pull" it will have on electrons) and the number/location of other electrons present in the atomic shells (the more electrons an atom has, the farther from the nucleus the valence electrons will be, and as a result the less positive charge they will experience both because of their increased distance from the nucleus, and because the other electrons in the lower energy core orbitals will act to shield the valence electrons from the positively charged nucleus).

This is necessary for bond formation because atoms whose electronegativity values have large differences form ionic bonds while those of close electronegativity values form covalent bonds.