Electronegativity from Avogadro to Pauling: II. Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Developments.

Traces electronegativity in four fundamental areas of chemistry during the period 1870-1910: (1) the relationship between electronegativity and classical valence; (2) the relationship between electronegativity and periodic law; (3) the relationship between electronegativity thermochemistry; and (4) the relationship between electronegativity and the electrical theory of matter. (KHR)