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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Many representative nonmetals and transition elements share the property of having many oxidation states. This allows them to form a wide variety of compounds by gaining, losing, or sharing electrons in different ways.

A Property That Many Representative Nonmetals and Many Transition Elements