oksüdatsiooniastmed
Oksüdatsiooniastmed, also known as oxidation states or oxidation numbers, are a bookkeeping concept used in chemistry to track the hypothetical charge an atom would have if all its bonds to atoms of different elements were 100% ionic. It is a fundamental tool for understanding redox reactions. These numbers represent the degree of oxidation of an atom in a chemical compound.
The rules for assigning oxidation states are standardized. For a free element, the oxidation state is always
Understanding oxidation states is crucial for balancing redox equations and predicting the products of chemical reactions.