UNIT # 16 - Redox Reactions
General Resources:
Benchmark Specific Resources:
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1. Describe oxidation and reduction in terms of gaining or losing oxygen.
2. Describe oxidation and reduction in terms of losing and gaining electrons.
3. Describe oxidation and reduction in terms of losing hydrogen or gaining hydrogen.
4. Relate rusting and corrosion to oxidation.
5. Predict oxidizing and reducing agents.
6. Using a chart of electronegativities determine which reactant is oxidized and which is reduced in a given chemical reaction.
7. Recognize that oxidation and reduction occurs in paired changes called redox reactions.
8. Balance a redox equation by using oxidation number changes.
Oxidation in progress
