A Property That Many Representative Nonmetals and Many Transition Elements

question 71

Multiple Choice

A property that many representative nonmetals and many transition elements share is that they both have

• A)color in many compounds.
• B)many paramagnetic compounds.
• C)high electronegativities.
• D)many compounds that observe the octet rule.
• E)many oxidation states.

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