do coefficiants+subscript effect electroneg. #?

Question

do coefficiants and or subscripts change the electronegativity number of a compound? thanks!

Answer 1

Electronegativity is a property on an element, not a compound. The electronegativity of fluorine is always 4.0, oxygen 3.5, and chlorine and nitrogen 3.0.

There is a treatment by the late Prof. R. Thomas Sanderson of Iowa that says that the electronegativities of all the elements in a compound can be used to find a geometrical mean (multiply them all together and take the appropriate root), and that one can thus calculate the "partial charge" (- or +) on each atom.