Oxidation and reduction reactions are the basis of understanding huge swathes of chemistry – from metal extraction (there’s a nice video of the microscale reduction of copper oxide here) to the chemistry of the halogens, from basic electrochemistry to fuel cells.
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Rules for assigning oxidation states
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Using half equations to write redox equations