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oxygen ion + water = hydrogen peroxide?

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if an oxygen ion radical (or whatever you call it) came into contact with a water molecule would it react to give a hydrogen peroxide molecule?

if an oxygen ion radical (or whatever you call it) came into contact with a water molecule would it react to give a hydrogen peroxide molecule?

 

Or whatever you call it could be a peroxide ion, superoxide ion, dioxygen radical, dioxygen diradical, or a dioxygen radical ion. Please be more specific.

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i mean just a single oxygen atom, i can't remember what it's called

  • 3 weeks later...

I think he means something like an atomic oxygen, I guess it is represented by the symbol [O]. I know some atomic oxygen is released when manganese heptoxide decomposes but I'm not sure if that's what you mean. Don't really think you'd have hydrogen peroxide. It's more probable that you'd obtain O2 when 2 of your atomic oxygens collide or, if you want to think on a collision between H2O (pure, without dissolved O2 or anything else) and [O], then there must be some chance, I don't really know.

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