what happens to oxygen that receives electrons?

Subject: what happens to oxygen that receives electrons?

Date: Sun Apr 1 00:31:22 2001
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Area of science: Chemistry
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my teacher told me that when a solution of fe(II) ions is left uncovered in a 
room, it will become fe(II) in a short period of time because the valence 
electrons get transferred to oxygen in the air. what does the oxygen then 
become?

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