Hello potplant3 🙂
That question too me right back to school! Redox reaction is a chemical reaction in which an oxidation reaction and a reduction reaction occur at the same time. One species gains electrons ( it becomes reduced) and the other species loses an electron (oxidized). In a redox reaction the oxidation numbers of the two species are changing.
We can split this redox reaction H2 + F2 → 2HF into two parts like so:
Here is an oxidation reaction: H2 → 2H+ + 2e- (GAIN OF ELECTONS)
and here a reduction reaction: F2 + 2e- → 2F- (LOSS OF ELECTRONS)
Hello potplant3 🙂
That question too me right back to school! Redox reaction is a chemical reaction in which an oxidation reaction and a reduction reaction occur at the same time. One species gains electrons ( it becomes reduced) and the other species loses an electron (oxidized). In a redox reaction the oxidation numbers of the two species are changing.
We can split this redox reaction H2 + F2 → 2HF into two parts like so:
Here is an oxidation reaction: H2 → 2H+ + 2e- (GAIN OF ELECTONS)
and here a reduction reaction: F2 + 2e- → 2F- (LOSS OF ELECTRONS)
Check out this cool pic
https://www.k12tlc.net/kidsquiz/images/oxidationreduction.jpg
I really liked that question, brought me back to high school study 😉 Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
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