[SnufitS]

I tried to find a list with all elements that form oxides but I didn't manage to. Does anyone know which elements form (or which don't form) oxides with oxygen?

Furthermore, I would be very grateful if you could tell me the conditions under which the elements of the boron group form their oxides.

Thank you in advance!

[Arkcon]

Actually, as one of the most electronegative elements, just about every element forms an oxide under some conditions -- even gold.  Maybe platinum metals don't -- but I wouldn't absolutely guarantee that.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen#Oxides_and_other_inorganic_compounds  As for the boron group, you can just look up each one and check.

[SnufitS]

Actually, as one of the most electronegative elements, just about every element forms an oxide under some conditions -- even gold.  Maybe platinum metals don't -- but I wouldn't absolutely guarantee that.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen#Oxides_and_other_inorganic_compounds  As for the boron group, you can just look up each one and check.

That what you found in the oxygen article should have been in the oxides article as well (I tried to find it there). As for the boron group, I don't have the time to look up each one individually but I hoped the conditions were general - exposure to air and varying temperatures, or something like that.

Thanks a lot!

[discodermolide]

Actually, as one of the most electronegative elements, just about every element forms an oxide under some conditions -- even gold.  Maybe platinum metals don't -- but I wouldn't absolutely guarantee that.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen#Oxides_and_other_inorganic_compounds  As for the boron group, you can just look up each one and check.

There is PtO₂ which is a nice catalyst. And PdO, etc. So almost every element forms an oxide, even Xenon,which forms several, although the lower inert gases don't

[Arkcon]

That what you found in the oxygen article should have been in the oxides article as well (I tried to find it there).

Yeah, I know, sometimes Wikipedia is curiously incomplete in spots.  I'd complain, but they'd just say I could edit it myself.  I'd edit it, but I'd set smacked down as redundant by some wiki-bot, or some such foo.  But the element pages themselves often have good, sourced information about the chemical properties.  The compound types pages should really only exist when the topic is too complex for a paragraph in the element article -- for example, iron oxide:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_oxide

As for the boron group, I don't have the time to look up each one individually but I hoped the conditions were general - exposure to air and varying temperatures, or something like that.

Thanks a lot!

There's only six, and some are so rare and expensive, you really inly have to worry about boron and aluminum.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boron_group#Oxides

[SnufitS]

Thank you discodermolide!

Arkcon you are very well informed, thanks for the h.e.l.p.! I would love to have a friend like you!  

[Arkcon]

Thank you discodermolide!

Arkcon you are very well informed, thanks for the h.e.l.p.! I would love to have a friend like you!  

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