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A scientist decided to use high-tech equipment to measure the electronegativity, an atom's attraction to electrons, of the second period on the periodic table. The results of her measurements are in the chart below. Z is equal to the atomic number of the specified atom and the number of protons in that atom.

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According to the experimenter's measurements, what is the apparent relationship between number of protons and the electronegativity of an atom?

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