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Re:This Biology Book Blew Me Away by Evgeny on Thursday May 19, 2016 @02:57AM (#11728531)
Normally one does not think of water as a reductant, but as a facilitator oxidation.

Normally I don't think of water in either way ...

Re:This Biology Book Blew Me Away by dnautics on Thursday May 19, 2016 @09:26PM (#11735072)
1) rust 2) if you do the basic transformation (addition of water to alkene, https://www.khanacademy.org/science/organic-chemistry/alkene...) biochemically and chemically speaking you usually assign an integral oxidation change of 0, but in reality, the alcohol is slightly higher oxidization state than the alkene.