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Why is oxiadation is bad?

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Why is oxiadation is bad? Where rust is caused because of water and oxygen reacting or oxiadation in cell biology that damage cells and DNA because of energy and oxygen reacting.

What can scientist do about oxiadation?

Could vehicles be made of other material that does not react to water and oxygen?

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22 minutes ago, Moon99 said:

Why is oxiadation is bad?

It is not fundamentally bad. Oxidation is merely a chemical process and it also has many important biological functions. For example, we oxidize nutrients to create reducing equivalents so that we can generate energy (via oxidative phosphorylation).

25 minutes ago, Moon99 said:

Where rust is caused because of water and oxygen reacting

Rust requires iron (it is an iron (hydr)oxide.

26 minutes ago, Moon99 said:

oxiadation in cell biology that damage cells and DNA because of energy and oxygen reacting.

So that is not the issue. What can happen is that during respiration reactive oxygen species are generated. This is mostly due to leakage from the ubiquinon pool as part of the aforementioned oxidative phosphorylation. These species are kind of aggressive and can indeed lead to damages, unless they are dealt with the many mechanisms in cells to neutralize them (e.g. superoxide dismutases, catalases, peroxidases etc.).

28 minutes ago, Moon99 said:

What can scientist do about oxiadation?

Nothing. If we stop oxidation, we stop critical biochemical processes and we just die. Not due to oxidation, but because our cells run out of energy (well and other critical processes). Redox reactions are kind of the essentials for metabolism.

29 minutes ago, Moon99 said:

Could vehicles be made of other material that does not react to water and oxygen?

I mean, yes. Anything that is not made of iron will, by definition, not rust.

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