electronegativity

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:

electronegativity

Wikipedia

Etymology

From electro- +‎ negativity.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Noun

electronegativity (plural electronegativities)

1. (chemistry) The tendency, or a measure of the ability, of an atom or molecule to attract electrons when forming bonds.

Related terms

• electronegative
• electropositivity

Translations

degree of electron attraction

Bulgarian: електроотрицателност f (elektrootricatelnost) Chinese: Mandarin: 電負性 / 电负性 (zh) (diànfùxìng) Finnish: elektronegatiivisuus (fi) French: électronégativité (fr) f Georgian: ელექტროუარყოფითობა (elekṭrouarq̇opitoba) German: Elektronegativität (de) f Hungarian: elektronegativitás (hu) Indonesian: elektronegativitas Irish: leictridhiúltacht f Italian: elettronegatività (it) f Japanese: 電気陰性度 (ja) (でんきいんせいど, denkiinseido) Kazakh: электртерістілік (élektrterıstılık) Korean: 전기 음성도(電氣陰性度) (jeon'gi eumseongdo) Malay: keelektronegatifan Maori: tōrarotanga hiko Polish: elektroujemność (pl) f Portuguese: eletronegatividade (pt) f Romanian: electronegativitate (ro) f Russian: электроотрицательность (ru) f (elektrootricatelʹnostʹ) Spanish: electronegatividad f Swedish: elektronegativitet (sv) c Tagalog: kadagibalingan

See also

• Pauling scale
• Mulliken scale