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Chapter 06

Destructive Oxidation

Oxidation as voltage: when electron transfer turns destructive, dissolved oxygen as the primary oxidant, and the temperature paradox behind corrosion rate.

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“If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is. ”

David Mitchell
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