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That's pretty much it. Why do they have 0 Oxidation state?
Why do metals in metal carbonyls have 0 OS?
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Oxidation number is like a hypothetical value for the charge of the individual species if a compound was considered ionic(atleast that's what i understood).Borek said:Why not?
So when we say the OS of metals in metal carbonyls is 0, are we saying that they can never donate any electrons? I am confused , i don't understand.
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