What is Oxidation Number
Answers
Answered by
7
Oxidation number:-
An oxidation number is a number that is assigned to an element in a chemical combination. This number represents the number of electrons that an atom can gain, lose, or share when chemically bonding with an atom of another element.
Answered by
22
The oxidation number of an atom is the charge it appears to have when you count the electrons according to some arbitrary rules. The oxidation number of an atom depends on the other atoms in the substance.
For example, In KCl, the oxidation number of Cl is 0.
Similar questions