redox
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of redox
First recorded in 1820–30; by shortening and inversion
Example Sentences
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These results demonstrate the potential of redox covalent organic frameworks to significantly strengthen CIB technology.
From Science Daily • Feb. 13, 2026
"We show that this environmentally important redox reaction is not solely chemical," says Alexander Loy, research group leader at CeMESS, the Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science at the University of Vienna.
From Science Daily • Nov. 9, 2025
Rate increases of that magnitude have been seen before but in a different class of catalytic reactions known as redox half-reactions, which involve the gain or loss of an electron.
From Science Daily • Feb. 15, 2024
But the people who study redox half-reactions, also known as electrochemical reactions, are part of an entirely different research community than those studying non-redox chemical reactions, known as thermochemical reactions.
From Science Daily • Feb. 15, 2024
Researchers at Linköping University have now developed a material whose absorption of terahertz signals can be turned on and off through a redox reaction.
From Science Daily • Dec. 21, 2023
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