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Re:Personal care products disrupt the human oxidation field by gsf_emergency_2 on Sunday June 29, 2025 @07:52PM (#44417733)
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.
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Re:Personal care products disrupt the human oxidation field by thaumasiotes on Sunday June 29, 2025 @10:43PM (#44418738)
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?
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Re:Personal care products disrupt the human oxidation field by gsf_emergency_2 on Monday June 30, 2025 @06:01AM (#44421398)
Here's one way

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion-exchange_membrane

Another, that you might be interested in, but it's more confusing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton-exchange_membrane

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Re:Personal care products disrupt the human oxidation field by gsf_emergency_2 on Monday June 30, 2025 @08:07AM (#44422258)
See the figure

https://www.fuelcellstore.com/introduction-ion-exchange-memb...

Each ion of salt participates in a different reaction

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