If a substance reacts with oxygen, what is the chemical reaction most likely?

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anor277
May 15, 2017

"A combustion reaction", which sits under the umbrella of "redox reactions........"

Explanation:

Typically, an element, metal, sulfur, carbon, is OXIDIZED by oxygen gas to give, for instance a metal or element oxide, and of course, the oxygen is reduced in the reaction.

For carbon we could write:

stackrel(0)"C"(s) +"O"_2(g) ""rarr stackrel(+IV)" CO"_2(g)

Now this is both a "combustion reaction", and a "redox reaction". Oxygen gas is reduced from stackrel(0)O_2 to "oxide", O^(2-) anion.

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