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Offline lazyandcool

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How to work out valence of specific element in an chemichal formula?
« on: March 29, 2014, 03:34:20 PM »
For example I need to find valance of S only on chemichal formula CaSo4.How do I do that?
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Re: How to work out valence of specific element in an chemichal formula?
« Reply #1 on: April 05, 2014, 06:05:17 AM »
Do you mean you want to find the oxidation number of S?
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Re: How to work out valence of specific element in an chemichal formula?
« Reply #2 on: April 05, 2014, 10:17:30 AM »
A few links you might read
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxidation_state
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oxidation_states_of_the_elements
In addition to WIKI, a GOOGLE search gave many hits
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