On Apr 2, 2009, at 2:47 AM, Wacek Kusnierczyk wrote:
Pat Hayes wrote:
On Mar 31, 2009, at 7:49 AM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote:
What about this statement:
"Two grams of hydrogen react with 16 grams of oxygen to 18 grams of
water"
If I were trying to do a professional job of 'ontologizing' this, it
would be a formal rendering of:
Every reaction in which the participants are an amount1 comprising
hydrogen and an amount2 comprising oxygen, is an oxidation reaction
this is a redox (reduction-oxidation) reaction, where the hydrogen is
oxidized, but the oxygen is reduced ;)
OK, thanks. Chemistry was never my strongest subject at school.
Pat
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