How is photosynthesis an example of an oxidation-reduction reaction?
1 Answer
Oct 21, 2017
Well, carbon dioxide is REDUCED to glucose......
Explanation:
Here we go from
And water is OXIDIZED to dioxygen gas.....
Here we go from
And so we add ONE of the former reaction, to TWELVE of the latter reactions....in order to remove the electrons.....
To give finally.....
And this reaction is ENDOTHERMIC (and this is reasonable, because we break STRONG