Oxidation state of nitrogen
Chemistry
Level
2
What is the oxidation state of nitrogen in ?
+3
+6
+4
+5
This section requires Javascript.
You are seeing this because something didn't load right. We suggest you, (a) try
refreshing the page, (b) enabling javascript if it is disabled on your browser and,
finally, (c)
loading the
non-javascript version of this page
. We're sorry about the hassle.
1 solution
the oxidation state of hydrogen is +1 and for each oxygen their oxidation state is -2. Therefore since nitric acid has no overall charge as it is not an ion +1-6=-5 and therefore the oxidation state of nitrogen must be positive 5 to equal 0.