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Assigning Oxidation Numbers

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What is the oxidation number of $C$ in carbon suboxide $C_{3} O_{2}$ ?

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Structure of carbon suboxide.
$O = C = C = C = O - 2 + 20 + 2 - 2$
Hence the central carbon ha 'O' oxidation number and other $2$ carbon atoms has $+ 2$ oxidation number.

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