Re:Personal care products disrupt the human oxidation field
by thaumasiotes on Sunday June 29, 2025 @02:22PM
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How can something be a negative ion generator without simultaneously being a positive ion generator?
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Re:Personal care products disrupt the human oxidation field
by giantg2 on Sunday June 29, 2025 @02:28PM
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Re:Personal care products disrupt the human oxidation field
by rpnx on Sunday June 29, 2025 @02:37PM
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That isn't how chemistry works.
Re:Personal care products disrupt the human oxidation field
by wizzwizz4 on Sunday June 29, 2025 @03:04PM
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Isosaccharinic acid has the same chemical formula (C6H12O6) as glucose, which isn't acidic. However, they both have the same net charge.
Re:Personal care products disrupt the human oxidation field
by xvedejas on Sunday June 29, 2025 @03:12PM
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When something is an acid, it dissociates into both a positive ion H+ and negative ion (rest of the molecule)
HA ⇌ H+ + A-
Re:Personal care products disrupt the human oxidation field
by gsf_emergency_2 on Sunday June 29, 2025 @07:52PM
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You're right but a lot of times the positive ion is far less reactive and/or more massive than the negative ion. Not so much for OH-. Charge is not the only thing that matters.
Re:Personal care products disrupt the human oxidation field
by thaumasiotes on Sunday June 29, 2025 @10:43PM
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Well, in a similar way to how you can't generate a negative ion without simultaneously generating a positive ion... how do you use the negative ion in a reaction without simultaneously using the associated positive ion in the same reaction?
Re:Personal care products disrupt the human oxidation field
by gsf_emergency_2 on Monday June 30, 2025 @06:01AM
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Here's one way
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion-exchange_membrane
Another, that you might be interested in, but it's more confusing
Re:Personal care products disrupt the human oxidation field
by gsf_emergency_2 on Monday June 30, 2025 @08:07AM
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See the figure
https://www.fuelcellstore.com/introduction-ion-exchange-memb...
Each ion of salt participates in a different reaction