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Does electronegativity increase or decrease when you go across a period on the

periodic table? Does it increase or decrease when you move down a group on the
periodic table?

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Step-by-step explanation:

The element with the highest electronegativity is Flourine. Its value is 4. Thus it increases across a period.

Its trend is it increases from left to right and up the groups. So it will decrease going down the group.

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