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Chemistry For Your Life
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The Relationship Between Oxygen and Iron Oxide
Oxygen exists as two radicals, which we talked about in the antioxidants episode and I don't know that for sure. So it wants the electrons, but most of the time oxygen can't get at. Iron's electrons. You get your pan. It's just sitting in a drawer or it's sitting out on the counter or whatever. But really in ionic bonds, everyone is happy and stable because this reaction is occurs naturally.You don't have to put energy in to make that happen. It's going to happen as long as there's iron water and oxygen together.
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