There are 2 definitions:
ox·i·da·tion (ok'si-da'sh?n)
n.
1. The combination of a substance with oxygen.
2. A reaction in which the atoms in an element lose electrons and the valence of
the element is correspondingly increased.
Chuck
Please, Captain, not in front of the Klingons
On Sun, 09 Apr 2000 11:17:23 -0400, coyote <[email protected]> wrote:
> Oxidation: Oxidation is where an element or substance combines with
>oxygen to form another compound. An oxidized element is no longer in it's
>elemental form but is an oxide compound of that element or IOW that
>element compounded with oxygen to form an oxide [or dioxide or trioxide
>etc depending on how many oxygen atoms it's valence will 'hold'] The
>normal oxide of silver would be Ag2O because silver has a valence of +1
>and oxygen has a valence of -2, however, under electrolytic conditions,
>silver can form 1 or 2 other oxides for a total of three as per a
>previous post...one of which is, 'possibly', as a result of silver
>hydroxide formation going further down the reaction chain and losing its
>hydrogen. [I don't know for sure exactly what happens but it's possible
>that there's a voltage varience involved and voltage does vary or 'drop'
>with increasing resistance...and resistance does increase with distance
>through a resistive medium such as water]
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