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It is easy. 1 Fe oxidizes by 1 ON up, 2 N reduces by 1 ON down each. so 1 O oxidizes 1 ON up. It directly leads to 4 Fe, 8 N and 1 O2, i.e 4 Fe(NO3)2 -> 2 Fe2O3 + 8 NO2 + O2. I remember solving such things in 1980, before entering high school.
Be aware that both reactions are sums of two independent reactions (oxidation of iron(II) and oxidation of oxalate) and you can theoretically formulate infinite number of different reaction equations, depending on the chosen iron : oxalate ratio/
The shielding effect is about the net force, as the vector sum of all force contributions between particular charges. One can quite well apply classical electrostatic analogy.
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