Relationship Between Oxidation # and O Atoms
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Relationship Between Oxidation # and O Atoms
Why does oxidation number increase when the number of O atoms increases?
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Re: Relationship Between Oxidation # and O Atoms
When bonded in a covalent compound with anything other than Fluorine, oxygen has an oxidation state of -2. Therefore, adding more oxygens adds a greater number of -2 oxidation states. However, oxygens in any state other than their independent gas state still have a negative oxidation state. Knowing that an oxidation state of a molecule is equivalent to its charge means that in order for a molecule to be neutral, the oxidation states of other atoms within the molecule become dependent on the oxygen added in order to make the sum of all oxidation numbers equivalent to zero.
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Re: Relationship Between Oxidation # and O Atoms
Hi, since the oxidation number of oxygen is -2 unless attached to fluorine. so as the # of Oxygens increase in a compound, the oxidation number increase as well.
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Re: Relationship Between Oxidation # and O Atoms
We have to determine, in which of the given reactions, the oxidation number of oxygen increases. Oxidation is a reaction where the oxidation state of an element increases. So basically, we are determining the reaction where oxygen is being oxidized.
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Re: Relationship Between Oxidation # and O Atoms
Oxygen almost always takes the oxidation number of -2. So when more oxygens are added, the oxidation numbers of the other atoms bonded are dependent on that and change accordingly.
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