Question

Is electronegativity quantifiable on an absolute scale?

Answer 1

Absolutely not...........

Explanation:

`"Electronegativity"` is conceived to be the ability of an atom involved in a chemical bond to polarize electron density towards itself. There are various scales, of which the `"Pauling scale"` was one of the earliest, and is still most widely used.

Pauling originally used ionization enthalpies, and electron affinities, measurable atomic properties, which he then normalized to give a useful scale that gave a dimensionless quantity, `chi`, that varied between `0` and `4`.