ICSEClass XChemistryChemical Bonding02 Mark2023 Moderate

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Define / State:

(a) Electronegativity.

(b) Gay-Lussac’s law of combining volumes.

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Answer

(a) Electronegativity is the tendency of an atom in a molecule to attract the shared pair of electrons towards itself.

(b) When gases react, they do so in volumes that bear a simple whole-number ratio to one another and to the volume of gaseous products, provided all volumes are measured at the same temperature and pressure.

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