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
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oxidation number

Summary

oxidation number is a chemical property[1]. It ranks in the top 9% of chemical_property entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (547 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • oxidation number's image is recorded as Period 2 oxidation numbers.png[3].
  • oxidation number's instance of is recorded as chemical property[4].
  • oxidation number's instance of is recorded as chemical formalism[5].
  • oxidation number's GND ID is recorded as 4173017-3[6].
  • oxidation number's subclass of is recorded as dimensionless quantity[7].
  • oxidation number's Commons category is recorded as Oxidation states[8].
  • oxidation number's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/09l1q[9].
  • oxidation number's PSH ID is recorded as 5486[10].
  • oxidation number's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/oxidation-number[11].
  • oxidation number's main Wikidata property is recorded as P1121[12].
  • oxidation number's Quora topic ID is recorded as Oxidation-Number[13].
  • oxidation number's ISQ dimension is recorded as 1[14].
  • oxidation number's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as oksidasjonstall[15].
  • oxidation number's IUPAC Gold Book ID is recorded as O04363[16].
  • oxidation number's IUPAC Gold Book ID is recorded as O04365[17].
  • oxidation number's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[18].
  • oxidation number's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2778591166[19].
  • oxidation number's Australian Educational Vocabulary ID is recorded as scot/15677[20].
  • oxidation number's quantity symbol is recorded as z[21].
  • oxidation number's Lex ID is recorded as oxidationstrin[22].
  • oxidation number's IEV number is recorded as 114-01-25[23].
  • oxidation number's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C2778591166[24].
  • oxidation number's Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID is recorded as stepen-okisleniia-b83efe[25].

Why It Matters

oxidation number ranks in the top 9% of chemical_property entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (547 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26] It is known by 52 alternative names across languages and contexts.[27]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
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  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [26] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [27] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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