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If gallium and oxygen chemically react to form a compound, what would be thecorrect formula of the resulting compound and would it be classified as molecular orionic?

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4Ga + 3O2 = 2Ga2O3

So when gallium reacts with oxygen a compound formed if Ga2O3, and this compound is ionic.

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