Redox Definition

rēdŏks
noun
Oxidation-reduction.
American Heritage

Oxidation-reduction.

Webster's New World

(chemistry) A reversible process in which one reaction is an oxidation and the reverse is a reduction.

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Origin of Redox

  • Shortened reduction + oxidation

    From Wiktionary

  • red(uction) ox(idation)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Redox Sentence Examples

  • We are interested in the essential trace element molybdenum, which is required as a component of the cofactors of various redox enzymes.

  • Methylene blue is an example of an artificial hydrogen acceptor, or redox indicator.

  • However, in redox proteins with strong oxidizing centers oxidative decarboxylation of nearby ionized carboxylic groups may be expected to occur to some degree.

  • Basic concepts in equilibrium geochemistry, isotope geochemistry and redox geochemistry are covered.

  • To understand what is happening here we need to think about redox reactions.

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