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Title: Oxidation States of elements
Post by: Ilikebugs on April 28, 2019, 01:37:40 PM

The +1 oxidation state is more common for which element, sodium or aluminum?

I know the oxidation state is the charge an atom would have if all bonds were ionic, but I don't know how to get the oxidation state for sodium and aluminum

Title: Re: Oxidation States of elements
Post by: chenbeier on April 28, 2019, 01:54:11 PM

The oxidation state you get if metals loosing elecrons to become an ion. Compare in which goup you find sodium and aluminium in PSE. How many electrons on the outer shell.

Title: Re: Oxidation States of elements
Post by: Ilikebugs on April 29, 2019, 08:32:17 PM

So would sodium get a +1 oxidation state and aluminum a +3 oxidation state?

Title: Re: Oxidation States of elements
Post by: billnotgatez on April 29, 2019, 10:04:37 PM

@Ilikebugs
have you seen this list on WIKI

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxidation_state#List_of_oxidation_states_of_the_elements (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxidation_state#List_of_oxidation_states_of_the_elements)

Title: Re: Oxidation States of elements
Post by: Borek on April 30, 2019, 02:55:59 AM

Full list is hardly helpful. Just look at the position of an element in the periodic table.

Won't necessarily work well for transition metals, they are in general often difficult to predict.