Ladder

Electronegativity — the ladder

One essay so far against this idea. A ladder is the distinct arguments that stand against one idea, and this one has room to grow.
  1. PaulingdimensionlessMullikeneVAllred–RochowdimensionlessAllendimensionlessHHLiLiBeBeBBCCNNOOFFNaNaMgMgAlAlSiSiPPSSClClKKBrBrII12 inversions14 inversions2 inversionsSpearman between adjacent columns: 0.957 · 0.949 · 0.995 — high, and not oneranked, because the units do not comparefour definitions, four orderings

    Electronegativity is not one quantity

    Four scales, four definitions, four sets of units, and a defence — "they correlate well" — that answers a question nobody asked. Two scales can correlate at 0.99 and still put hydrogen on the wrong side of carbon.

    rung 1 · wrong

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