[meteorite-list] Re: Serious question?

From: Bob Martino <martino.6_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:29:57 2004
Message-ID: <010501c37d8f$7cad3fb0$0300000a_at_TheMonolith>

Steven,

So you're saying that we can have oxidation without oxygen?

Sounds like an oxymoron to me. :)

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> At 08:10 PM 9/17/2003 -0400, Charles R. Viau wrote:
> >Oxidation - Definition -> Combining a substance with oxygen.
>
> Strictly speaking oxidation is the loss of electrons. The electrons need
> somewhere to go so something is going to gain electrons and that is the
> reduction part. So to undergo oxidation, something has to be reduced -
> usually it's oxygen that accepts the wayward electrons but it doesn't
> always have to be so.
>
> For example:
> Ba + F2 -> BaF2 is an oxidation-reduction reaction that doesn't involve
> oxygen. Here F is the oxydizing agent.
>
> Steven
Received on Wed 17 Sep 2003 10:49:26 PM PDT