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What trend in electronegativity do you see as you go across a period/row on the table? What causes this trend?

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Answer: It decreases as it goes down and increases as it goes to the right.

Explanation: This is because as it goes down, the elements are becoming bigger which makes the distance from the proton and electron to become further, causing the attraction to weaken. While as it goes to the right across a period, it increases because the number of protons increase and we know that if there are more protons, the pull of the electrons from the nucleus becomes stronger.

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