The periodic table of chemical elements, often called the periodic table, organizes all discovered chemical elements in rows (called periods) and columns (called groups) according to increasing atomic ...

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Electronegativity, an essential characteristic of all elements in the periodic table, measures an atom's ability to attract electrons towards ... The higher an element's electronegativity, the ...