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This has always seemed odd to me.

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Re: Why'd Pauling use a 0.9 - 4.0 scale for electronegativity?
« Reply #1 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
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Re: Why'd Pauling use a 0.9 - 4.0 scale for electronegativity?
« Reply #2 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.

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