In chemistry, the concept of oxidation numbers is a crucial one for understanding various chemical reactions and compounds. The oxidation number of an atom represents its charge or apparent charge, ...

Last week, we introduced techniques for teaching online chemistry students how to assign oxidation numbers to elements. Once students are comfortable with oxidation numbers, the next step is to teach ...

Oxidation numbers, also known as oxidation states, help determine what is being oxidized and reduced in a redox reaction. It’s one of those chemistry topics that seem simple on paper as it’s just ...

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Prime numbers are only divisible by themselves and one. Robert Brook via Getty Images In the 17th century, French monk and mathematician Marin Mersenne developed a method to find prime numbers: values ...

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The ancient scholar Hippasus of Metapontum was punished with death for his discovery of irrational numbers—or at least that’s the legend. What actually happened in the fifth century B.C.E. is far from ...

About 2.5 billion years ago, free oxygen, or O 2, first started to accumulate to meaningful levels in Earth's atmosphere, setting the stage for the rise of complex life on our evolving planet.