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The electronegravity decreases as you go down the periodic table. As you go down the columns in the periodic table the atoms get bigger because there are more full shells of electrons (although the number electrons in the OUTER shell always stays the same for each element in the group). so because there are more shells the outer shell of electrons becomes increasingly further away from the nucleus this means they are shielded from the attractions of the positive nucleus' pull by the increasing number of inner shells.

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