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Electronegativity
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Solution
Electronegativity is the tendency of an atom to attract the shared pair of electrons towards itself in a chemical bond. Elements with high electronegativity strongly pull electrons, while those with low electronegativity tend to lose electrons easily. Electronegativity decreases down a group due to increased atomic size and increases across a period due to increasing nuclear charge.
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