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Title: Why'd Pauling use a 0.9 - 4.0 scale for electronegativity?
Post by: nj_bartel on May 19, 2009, 06:38:34 PM

This has always seemed odd to me.

Title: Re: Why'd Pauling use a 0.9 - 4.0 scale for electronegativity?
Post by: Borek on May 19, 2009, 06:52:54 PM

My bet is that you will find the answer here:

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja01348a011

Title: Re: Why'd Pauling use a 0.9 - 4.0 scale for electronegativity?
Post by: nj_bartel on May 19, 2009, 07:02:21 PM

Thanks =P I'll have to wait until I'm back up at school though.  No ACS sub.