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Enviornmental Conditions needed for Oxidation to Occur?

shaheen16 - 9-2-2011 at 17:14

Hey guys,

I was wondering if anyone knew of the enviromental conditions needed for oxidation to occur? I mean generally...do there need to be high temperatures? Must there be an excess in one of the reagents?

If you have answers to ethanal to ethanol specifically, that would be great, thank you :)

[Edited on 10-2-2011 by shaheen16]

hkparker - 9-2-2011 at 23:27

That's a very broad question and depends entirely on what your talking about, which I'm going to guess is ethanol to ethanal because you posted about the same thing right above this. Please don't post twice about the same thing on the board.

[Edited on 10-2-2011 by hkparker]