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2007 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Carbon through Lead, the Tetrels
Published in: Inorganic Reactions in Water
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Oxidation numbers in the simplest compounds: (−IV), (−II), (0), (II), (IV), as in CH
4
, CH
3
OH, CH
2
O, CO and CO
2
. Most of these, however, are well described with the older concept of valence, usually four. Still, oxidation number provides one needed criterion for sequencing here.