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electronegativity

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why higher peneteration power leads to high eletronegativity of an atom?

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Madhusudan Chavan

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4 Feb 2012 19:59:32 IST

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As s electron is nearer the nucleus due to its penetrating power, electronegativity increases with the increasing s character of the hybrid orbitals. Thus the electronegativity values for carbon are 2.48, 2.75 & 3.29 for sp3, sp2 and sp state respectively.

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