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Lowest Oxidation States of Technetium and Rhenium

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THE polarographic reduction of perrhenate ion, ReO4 āˆ’, to rhenide ion has been studied in some detail1,2; although the possibility of a āˆ’I state for technetium has been mentioned3, no experimental evidence for such a state appears in the literature.

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COLTON, R., DALZIEL, J., GRIFFITH, W. et al. Lowest Oxidation States of Technetium and Rhenium. Nature 183, 1755 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1831755a0

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