GK QUESTION#3486
Which electronegativity scale, associated with work published in 1932, assigns fluorine the highest value, commonly rounded to 4.0?
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C. Pauling scale
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The Pauling scale is the familiar electronegativity scale associated with Linus Pauling’s 1932 work on bond energies. Fluorine is assigned the highest value, commonly rounded to 4.0; many modern tables give 3.98.