too much oxygen???

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>From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

 

Oxidize : \Ox"i*dize\, ] (Chem.) To combine with oxygen, or subject to

the action of oxygen, or of an oxidizing agent. Specifically: (a) To

combine with oxygen or with more oxygen; to add oxygen to; as, to

oxidize nitrous acid so as to form nitric acid. (b) To remove hydrogen

from (anything), as by the action of oxygen; as, to oxidize alcohol so

as to form aldehyde. © To subject to the action of oxygen or of an

oxidizing agent, so as to bring to a higher grade, as an -ous compound

to an -ic compound; as, to oxidize mercurous chloride to mercuric chloride.

 

Note: In certain cases to oxidize is identical with to acidify; for, in

nearly all cases, the more oxygen a substance contains the more nearly

does it approximate to acid qualities; thus, by oxidation many elements,

as sulphur, nitrogen, carbon, chromium, manganese, etc., pass into

compounds which are acid anhydrides, and thus practically in the acid state.

 

In short,

Oxidizing agent....baaaaad,

Oxygen...............good

 

Keep breathing,

Dharam Millis, MA

 

 

 

seattle sue wrote:

 

>sat nam everybody,

>a friend of mine was told by a 'personal trainer' that it is possible

>for the body to get TOO much oxygen. he said that is why it's important

>to take antioxydants. this sounds wrong to me! isn't breath of fire, for

>example, an exercise to increase the amount of oxygen in the body?? how

>can oxygen be bad? or is this true, and part of the reason we are

>encouraged to take longer, deeper breaths when we *aren't* practicing

>pranayama?

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