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oxidation number

number that describes degree of oxidation of an atom in a chemical compound; the hypothetical charge that an atom would have if all bonds to atoms of different elements were fully ionic
Class type of: dimensionless quantity Q484152

Facts

7 properties
Instance of
chemical property, chemical formalism[3]
Subclass of
dimensionless quantity
Described by source
Belarusian encyclopedia[4]
ISQ dimension
1
Main Wikidata property
P1121[5]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[6]
Quantity symbol (LaTeX)
z
🏷️ Also known as
en oxidation number en oxidation state ar درجة أكسدة ar حالة أكسدة ar رقم تأكسد ar عدد أكسدة ar عدد تأكسد ar عدد الأكسدة ar حالة الأكسدة ar رقم الأكسدة ar رقم أكسدة cs oxidační číslo cs oxidační stupeň cs oxidační stav da oxidationstrin da oxidationstal de Oxydationszahl de Oxydationszustand de Oxidationsstufe de Oxidationszustand
🔖 Identifiers · 15
GND ID
4173017-3
OpenAlex ID
C2778591166
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Period 2 oxidation numbers.png ↗
Australian Educational Vocabulary ID
scot/15677
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
science/oxidation-number
Freebase ID
/m/09l1q
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
oksidasjonstall
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
4165724
Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID
stepen-okisleniia-b83efe
IEV number
114-01-25
IUPAC Gold Book ID
O04363, O04365
Lex ID
oxidationstrin
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Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
2778591166
PSH ID
5486
Quora topic ID
Oxidation-Number

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🔗 Connections
Instance of 1
chemical property
On focus list of Wikimedia project 1
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
Subclass of 1
dimensionless quantity
← Is a list of 1
list of oxidation states of the elements
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Summary

oxidation number is a chemical property[1]. It is a type of dimensionless quantity[2].

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 2d ago · Ueschar · 2026-11-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Described by source → Belarusian encyclopedia
    Subclass of → dimensionless quantity
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'an', 'ar', 'ary', 'ast', 'ba', 'ban', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'blk', 'bn
    Main Wikidata property → P1121
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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