electronegativity

[Alondra Juarez section 1E]

I am highly confused as to how to know when an element has a higher electronegativity than another element for example why does oxygen have a higher electronegativity than nitrogen? can someone explain this to me thoroughly?

[Jasmine Emtage-1J]

Electronegativity describes the ability of an atom to attract electrons. The more protons an atom has (as indicated by the atomic number), the better it is at attracting electrons. That's why Oxygen has a higher electronegativity than Nitrogen. As a general rule of thumb, electronegativity increases across a row in the periodic table.

[MariahClark 2F]

Electronegativity describes an atom's tendency to attract bonding pair electrons to itself, which can be determined mainly by the number of valence electrons in the outer shell. In theory, an atom wants 8 outer valence electrons to feel completely stable... so to satisfy that it will pull from other atoms who dont possess that stronger attraction to need more electrons. For example, oxygen has 6 valence electrons and a relatively high electronegativity because it is close to filling up 8 valence electrons to feel more stable. Oxygen can pull electrons from a electronegatively weaker atom like hydrogen to complete that 8 valence electron outer shell. To answer your question about why oxygen has a higher electronegatively you can look at the valence electrons. Nitrogen has 5 and oxygen has 6. It is easier for oxygen to pull 2 electrons from somewhere than it is for nitrogen to pull 3, hence oxygen having a greater electronegativity.

[sharonvivianv]

The trend on the periodic table is a positive slope so as you go across and up the periodic table, the electronegativities are greater.

[Jose Munoz 1D]

The way that i remember this the easiest is by having electronegativity being at its lowest on the bottom left and the highest at the top right of the periodic table.