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What is electronegativity? How is this useful in understanding the nature of elements?

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The relative tendency of an atom in a covalent molecule to attract the shared pair of electrons towards itself is called electronegativity.
The elements having more elenctronegativity values are more non-metallic and the elements having less electronegativity values are more metallic.
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