(04-21-2010, 09:31 AM)blow_fly98 Wrote: Using my pure awesome chem skills:
Isn't oxidation when a metal reacts with oxygen in the air to form an oxide?
Azriel is right
Oxidation (the loss of electrons) is a part of the redox reaction, the other part is reduction (gain of electrons).
If something oxidates, the other substance has to reduct.