Chapter 9, Problem 9.149QP

Interpretation Introduction

Interpretation:

The electronegativity of Chlorine, the value of the ionization energy and the electron affinity both are divided the values by 230 to get a value that values compared to Pauling’s scale has to be calculated.

Concept introduction:

Pauling’s scale is based on an empirical relation among the energy of a bond and the electronegativities of bonded atoms.

${\text{E}}_{\text{A-B}}\text{>}\sqrt{{\text{E}}_{\text{A-A}}{\text{×E}}_{\text{B-B}}}$

Mulliken’s Scale:

According to this method electronegativity could be regarded as the average of the ionization energy and electron affinity of an atom

$\text{Electronegativity}\text{=}\frac{\text{I}\text{.E+E}\text{.A}}{\text{2}}$