[meteorite-list] Serious question?
From: S. Singletary <jumper_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:29:57 2004 Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20030917201855.01f82380_at_hesiod> --=====================_216138090==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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 Steven Singletary 54-1224 Dept. Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences M.I.T. Cambridge, MA, 02139 Tel-617.253.6398 Fax-617.253.7102 Blue Skies! --=====================_216138090==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" <html> At 08:10 PM 9/17/2003 -0400, Charles R. Viau wrote:<br> <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Oxidation - Definition -> Combining a substance with oxygen.</blockquote><br> 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.<br><br> For example:<br> Ba + F<font size=1>2</font> -> BaF<font size=1>2</font> is an oxidation-reduction reaction that doesn't involve oxygen. Here F is the oxydizing agent.<br><br> Steven<br><br> <x-sigsep><p></x-sigsep> Steven Singletary<br> 54-1224<br> Dept. Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences<br> M.I.T.<br> Cambridge, MA, 02139<br> Tel-617.253.6398<br> Fax-617.253.7102<br><br> Blue Skies!</html> --=====================_216138090==_.ALT-- Received on Wed 17 Sep 2003 08:23:00 PM PDT |
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