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Why does electronegativity increase as you move across the periodic table

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moving across te periodic table electronegativity increases.

Step-by-step explanation:

as we move across a period the effective nuclear charge increases as the number of protons in nucleus increases. due to increase in effective nuclear charge electronegativity increases

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