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Is boron more electronegative than oxygen true or false

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False

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Because Oxygen's nucleus consists of more protons than boron an thus its Effective nuclear chargeis stronger than in case of boron. This means that oxygen will be "more electronegative" than boron, because his nucleus has bigger + charge and attracts electrons more than boron.

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