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    Apr 12, 2009, 11:07 PM
    Redox and Stoichiometry Anyone?
    I am studying chemistry and I am HORRIBLE! I simply do not understand redox and what is up with stoichiometry? Can someone explain both these "topics" to me? Thank you much.

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    Apr 13, 2009, 01:52 AM

    This might help you :-

    Reduction is a chemical reaction in which a substance gains electrons. The term originally referred to any chemical process in which a substance either combines with hydrogen or loses oxygen. Reduction is the opposite of oxidation, a chemical reaction in which a substance gives up electrons. Reduction and oxidation always occur together. These two combined reactions are known as redox reactions.

    Many kinds of processes involve reduction. For example, metal plating occurs when metal ions (electrically charged atoms) in a solution are reduced to form neutral atoms. When a piece of copper is placed in a solution containing silver ions, it slowly becomes coated with silver. In this process, each positively charged silver ion gains an electron given up by a copper atom and becomes electrically neutral.

    An example of the original meaning of reduction is the combining of nitrogen and hydrogen gases in the production of ammonia. Another example is the removal of oxygen from zinc oxide to form metallic zinc. Zinc may be extracted from its ore in this manner.

    Contributor: Cathleen J. Hapeman, Ph.D. Research Chemist, U.S. Department of Agriculture- Agriculture Research Service.
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    DEFINITION :-

    Stoichiometry, noun.

    1. the process or art of calculating the equivalent and atomic weights of the elements participating in any chemical reaction.

    2. the branch of science that deals with the relationships between the elements making up substances and the properties of the substances.

    See WORLD BOOK DICTIONARY.

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