oxidationsstatens
The concept of oxidationsstatens, often translated as oxidation state or oxidation number, is a bookkeeping tool used in chemistry to track the hypothetical charge that an atom would have if all bonds to atoms of different elements were 100% ionic. It is a formal convention and does not represent the actual charge distribution within a molecule. Oxidation states are assigned based on a set of rules that prioritize electronegativity.
In its elemental form, an atom has an oxidation state of zero. For monatomic ions, the oxidation
The sum of the oxidation states of all atoms in a neutral molecule must equal zero. For