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Nitrogen is the third most electronegative element after oxygen and fluorine, excluding noble gases.
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Is it true that nitrogen is the third most electronegative element after oxygen and fluorine, excluding noble gases?
No. Nitrogen is actually the fourth most electronegative element (after fluorine, oxygen, and chlorine), not the third.
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Wikipedia: Nitrogen. (n.d.). Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen
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