What do we call the process when oxygen gas reacts with a SINGLE electron?

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What do we call the process when oxygen gas reacts with a SINGLE electron?

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Answer 1 · 2016-04-16T15:58:25

The process is clearly an example of reduction.

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#O_2(g) + e^(-) rarr O_2^(-)#

Dioxygen has gained or accepted an electron; therefore, by definition it has been REDUCED. If you draw out the Lewis structure of this #O_2^(-)# species, one of the oxygen atoms is a neutral radical, and the other is formally anionic.

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