Electronegativity scale
Escala de electronegatividad
- Date
- 1932 · confidence high
- Place
- Caltech, Pasadena, California, United States
- Credited to
- Linus Pauling
- People
- 👤 Linus Pauling1901–1994
- Field
- Matter & energy
What was discovered
Pauling quantifies each atom's tendency to attract electrons from bond energies, defining a periodic scale that predicts the polarity and ionic character of bonds.
Alternative scales by Mulliken (1934) and Allred-Rochow (1958).
What it led to
- Prediction of bond polarity
- Materials chemistry
- Chemistry teaching
Built on
- valence bond theory
- bond thermochemistry
Made possible
- design of compound semiconductors