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:) Sorry I meant, how do you see that the compound is being oxidized not reduced. If anything, I naively see that the compound begins neutrally charged and ends negatively charged and see it as being reduced (which is incorrect).

Thank you for the responses. After reading them, it makes sense that a compound can be reduced or oxidized...compounds can lose or gain electrons too! But then it confuses me that SO2-->SO42- is a reduction instead of an oxidation. How do you see that SO2 has lost electrons? It makes sense that...

Hello, Firstly, I apolagize if this should go in "HW help". It isn't homework, and the question doesn't fit the format of "HW help", but it is so elementary, so I don't know. I'll write my questions in bold. Although I think I understand what redox reactions are--a reaction in which an...