Introduced the concept of electronegativity; established a scale with associated numerical values for most of the elements. Coined the phrase “orthomolecular” to refer to the practice of varying the ...

Pauling's electronegativity scale, the most widely used and found in every chemistry textbook, ranges from 0.7 for cesium to 4.0 for fluorine. The higher an element's electronegativity, the stronger ...