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Redox rules & vocab
Rules for assigning Oxidation Numbers
Question | Answer |
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Elements? | Oxidation number is zero |
Monotomic ions? Like Fe- | charge on the ion |
Oxygen? | -2 in most compounds |
Hydrogen? | +1 in most compounds. Oxidation number of hydrogen is -1 in a binary compound with a metal such as CaH2. |
Halogens? | The oxydation number for flourine in all of its compounds is -1. All other Halogens have an oxidation number of -1 in binary compounds, excpet when the other element is another Halogen above it or oxygen. |
Compounds and ions? | The sum of the oxidation # of the atoms in a compound equals zero. In polyatiomic ion the sume of the oxidation numbers equals the charge of the ion. |
What rule allows you to see if your correct? | The rule for Compounds and ions. |
Define what it means when something has been oxidized? | The oxidation # goes up. |
What does it mean when something has been reduced? | the oxidation # goes down. |
An oxidizing agent is... | something that oxidizes something else, and in doing so its oxidation number goes down. |
A reducing agent is | something that reduces something else, and in doing something it gets oxidized. |