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Fluorine and Oxygen as the Strongest Oxidizers
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Fluorine and oxygen sit atop their groups where electronegativity peaks, making them the strongest common oxidizers, each oxidizing every element below it in its group.
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Fluorine oxidizes nearly every element it contacts and never carries a positive oxidation state.
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The strongest oxidizer is most eager to be reduced, not most eager to react — do not confuse oxidizing strength with reactivity.