[meteorite-list] Serious question?
From: S. Singletary <jumper_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:29:57 2004 Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20030917212022.01f85460_at_hesiod> --=====================_224542084==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Nope. I call that, as will any chemist you ask, an oxidation-reduction reaction. Oxidation is the loss of electrons, nothing more nothing less. Steven At 08:32 PM 9/17/2003 -0400, you wrote: >Ok, so for the symantics of that definition, would you call that a >reduction reaction not involving oxygen , and not oxidation .. ? 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! --=====================_224542084==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" <html> Nope. I call that, as will any chemist you ask, an oxidation-reduction reaction. Oxidation is the loss of electrons, nothing more nothing less. <br><br> Steven<br><br> At 08:32 PM 9/17/2003 -0400, you wrote:<br> <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><font face="arial" size=2 color="#000080">Ok, so for the symantics of that definition, would you call that a reduction reaction not involving oxygen , and not oxidation .. ?</blockquote> <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!</font></html> --=====================_224542084==_.ALT-- Received on Wed 17 Sep 2003 09:27:42 PM PDT |
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