Does electronegativity contribute to the mutual attraction of two bodies?

Question

Like, say, two balls of lead? Pb, by the way, has a 2.33 electronegativity which is quite enormous, and it is the heaviest chemically stable element (i.e. the one which owns the biggest amount of electrons). It would then be the most effective element to test electronegativity.

Is that alone enough to make two balls move a bit?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronegativity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavendish_experiment

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No news good news.
I guess it does then.

Thanks but...
"Electronegativity is a chemical property which describes the power of an atom (or, more rarely, a functional group) to attract electrons towards itself." --- Wiki.

And yes, Fluor is the most electronegative, thus not surprisingly among the most reactive chemicals, perhaps the most.

Chlore is similar to fluor in that way and is almost just as reactive. Like Oxygen, Carbon, Nitro, Sulfur, Brome and Iode.

The most electronegative elements are obviously the most prone to unite with others (and by that occasion destroy subtances, clean, etc). They don't even stay united because of electronegativy (in fact they will switch as soon as a better partner comes).

That property is like chemical charisma if i understand well. So your coffee answer does not change my point of view. Total lead could attract total lead as a pure & top electronegative element. Especially if it's a ball, because geometry helps there.

I apologize. Both of you are right, i'm sure ---> electronegativity is related to attraction between atoms, and plays a part in chemical components like HCl and Cl2, O2, CH4. It's therefore a kind of force, as its purpose is to put atoms together.

Therefore i still believe that electronegativity alone can set a constant like G in the head of Cavendish. (this is as discrete as 6.67 × 10−11 N m^2/kg^2).

Answer 1

No, electronegativity is a measure of something different than what you're imagining. In a sense, it's a measure of how much electrons in a covalent bond "like" to spend time around that atom. For example, the electronegativities of H and F are about 2.1 and 4, respectively. When H and F form a covalent bond by sharing electrons (forming the molecule HF in the process), the bonding electrons will tend to spend more time around F than H because of its higher electronegativity value. Because electrons are negatively charged, this makes the fluorine end of HF slightly negatively charged and the hydrogen end slightly positive (since bonding electrons are spending a little less time there).

Electronegativity isn't a measure of how attracted one substance may be to another substance...that's what you seem to be implying in your question.

Finally, on the most common electronegativity scale, values tend to range from about 0.7 to 4.0. Fluorine is the element with the greatest electronegativity value; lead's value of 2.33 isn't particularly high or low.

Hope this helps...

Answer 2

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Answer 3

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