James M. answered • 12/16/20
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I view it like a tug of war, electronegativity is the ability of an atom to pulls an electron towards itself and away from the other atom. The result is the atom with the higher electronegativity becomes slightly negative and the lower electronegativity [whose electron is being pulled away] becomes slightly positive.
