Transition Metals
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Transition Metals
Because the transition metals have variable oxidation states, which ones are we expected to memorize or will they be given?
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Re: Transition Metals
Often times you can tell their oxidation states based off what other elements are in the compound. For example, in the example in the lecture, we see that permanganate is MnO4-. Since we know that oxygen is -2, we can tell that Mn is +7 by looking at the overall charge and number of oxygen elements.
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Re: Transition Metals
For transition metals: uncombined elements have an oxidation state of zero. The oxidation state for ions equals the charge of the ion, and for neutral compounds it equals zero.
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Re: Transition Metals
you basically need to rely on the other element in the compound as Audrey said to determine the oxidation state in that situation
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