What are the elemental oxidation numbers in SO?

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anor277
Mar 25, 2017

This is [rare, NEUTRAL gas........](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur_monoxide)

Explanation:

And so the sum of the oxidation numbers of each constituent element must be 0. Since oxygen is MORE electronegative than sulfur, we assign oxidation numbers of stackrel(+II)S=stackrel(-II)O.

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