Aarav Kulkarni11thSample· 1mo ago
Oxidation number of sulphur in Na2S2O3 and iron in Fe3O4 come out fractional, how can that be?
I made a checklist of oxidation number rules of course I did and applied it to a few compounds from NCERT. It all worked nicely until I hit two cases. In Na 2S 2O 3 : 2 +1 + 2x + 3 -2 = 0 , so x = +2 . In Fe 3O 4 : 3x +
