Chemistry
Name the periodic property which relates to the:
(a) amount of energy required to remove an electron from an isolated gaseous atom,
(b) character of element which loses one or more electrons when supplied with energy,
(c) tendency of an atom in a molecule to attract the shared pair of electrons.
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(a) Ionisation Energy (I.E.)
(b) Metallic Character.
(c) Electronegativity.
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